swift redress of unexamined wrongs!
Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried,
But always apt to choose the suffering side!"

Where shall we find a more exquisite picture of home-sympathy than this,
from the pen of that truly pious woman, Hannah More! We consider the
home-sympathy as an argument against the neglect and abuse of the nursery.
It is the instinctive impulse of the parent's heart to be faithful to the
trust of home. What mother, prompted by such sympathy, can be recreant to
the duties of her household? Can she, keenly sensible to the danger of her
children, anxious for their welfare, prompt to do them justice, eager to
procure them interests and joys, yearning to alleviate their misfortunes,
push them from her arms, and give them over to the care of unfeeling and
immoral nurses? If among all the members of the Christian home

"There is a holy tenderness,
A nameless sympathy, a fountain love,--
Branched infinite from parents to children,
From husband to wife, from child to child,
That binds, supports, and sweetens human life,"

then the law of sympathy is the standard of faithfulness to the loved ones
of home, and its violation is an abuse of the affections and faith of the
heart. We shall now consider the natural and spiritual sympathy of home.

What are the natural elements of home-sympathy? The original meaning of
sympathy is "harmony of the affections." As such it is an instinctive
element of human nature. "Sympathy," says Adams in his Elements of
Christian Science, "is a natural harmony by which, upon matters especially
that concern the affections, one human being shall, under certain
conditions, feel, feel in despite of all concealment of language, the real
state of the other." It is, in a word, that law of our nature which makes
the feeling of one become affected in the same way as are the feelings of
another, so that, in obedience to this law, "we rejoice with them that
rejoice, and weep with them that weep." In order to this the motive need
not be the same in those in whom the feeling is the same; for that feeling
engenders a feeling of its own kind in the other, independent of similar
motive. Home-sympathy is that primary power of the heart by which all the
affections of one member are extended to all the other members. It awakens
in each for all the others, those delicate sensibilities which impel to the
most self-denying and benevolent acts. The parent who sympathizes with