main are the marks of habits,
tendencies, tastes, and dispositions there acquired. Many a man who has
left no fortune worth recording to his sons has left them something
better, the aptitude for things good and honorable, the memory of a good
name, and the heritage of a life that was worthy of honor. The personal
life has been always the enduring thing. Our concern for the future
should be not whether we can pass on intact the forms of home
organization, but whether we can give to the next day the force of ideal
family life. Perhaps like Mary we would do well to turn our eyes from
the much serving, the mechanisms of the home, to set our minds on the
better part, the personal values in the association of lives in the
family.

I. References for Study

W.F. Lofthouse, _Ethics and the Family_, chaps. ii, xi, xii. Hodder
& Stoughton, $2.50.

Charles R. Henderson, _Social Duties from the Christian Point of
View_, chaps. ii, iii. The University of Chicago Press, $1.25.

C.W. Votaw, _Progress of Moral and Religious Education in the
American Home_. Religious Education Association, $0.25.

II. Further Reading

Jacob A. Riis, _Peril and Preservation of the Home_. Jacobs,
Philadelphia, Pa., $1.00.

Charles R. Henderson, _Social Elements_. Scribner, $1.50.

Charles F. Thwing, _The Recovery of the Home_. American Baptist
Publication Society, $0.15.

III. Topics for Discussion

1. The tendency toward community life illustrated in the schools,
amusement parks, and hotel life. Remembering the ultimate purpose
of the family, how far is communal life desirable?

2. Does the apartment or tenement building furnish a suitable
condition for the higher purposes of the family?

3. Is it possible to restore to the home some of the benefits lost
by present factory consolidation of industry?

4. What can take the place of the old household arts and of those
which are now passing?

5. What steps should be taken to secure to the family a larger
measure of the time in terms of occupation of the parents?

6. What are the important things to contend for in this
institution? Why should we expect change in the form of the home
and what are the features which should not be changed?

FOOTNOTES:

[2] Figures taken from C.W. Votaw, _Progress of Moral and Religious
Education in the American Hom