e new home may each day be
more and more the dwelling-place of beauty and the abode of real
happiness. You cannot think of the old home without thinking of your
mother; and you cannot think of your mother without thinking of the
Bible.

A young man and a young woman who are making a new home make an
irreparable mistake if they leave out the religious influence. Both
ought to belong to church, and to the same church. This is a matter of
prudence as well as of righteousness; for get it into your
consciousness that you must be in harmony with the people of whom you
two are one. Your new home must be in accord with the millions of
other homes which make up this Nation; and the American people at
bottom are a religious people.

Also, you will find that nothing will please your wife so much as to
resolve upon regular church attendance, and then to reduce that
resolve to a habit. It is good for you, too; you feel as though you
had taken a moral bath after you get home from service every Sunday.

Of course, being an American and a gentleman, you will have the
American gentleman's conception of all womanhood, and his adoring
reverence for the one woman who has blessed him with her life's
companionship. You will cherish her, therefore, in that way which none
but the American gentleman quite understands. You will be gentle with
her, and watchful of her health and happiness.

You will be ever brave and kind, wise and strong, deserving that
respect which she is so anxious to accord you; earning that devotion
which by the very nature of her being she must bestow on you; winning
that admiration which it is the crowning pride of her life to yield
to you; and, finally, receiving that care which only her hands can
give, and a life-long joy which, increasing with the years, is fullest
and most perfect when both your heads are white and your mutual steps
no longer wander from the threshold of that "new home" which you built
in the beginning of your lives, and which is now the "old home" to
your children, who beneath its roof "rise up and call you blessed."

V

THE YOUNG LAWYER AND HIS BEGINNINGS

It used to be a part of the creed of a certain denomination that a man
should not be admitted to the ministry who had not received his
"call." It was necessary that he should hear the Voice speaking with
his tongue, and saying, "Woe is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel."

This is true of the profession of law. So, at the beginn