ABSTRACT
Husband and wife, parent and child, are not the only members of the family upon whom obligations devolve. The ideal which they have to keep steadily before them is not their personal good merely, however lofty their conception of it, but the good of the family. From the association of the family to the communion of friendship is no difficult transition. Friendship is a possession too precious to be at the mercy of a passing whim or the plaything of ill-temper. The Bible is the record of seem noble friendships. Filial affection is nowhere insisted on in the Bible, for it is a natural feeling which rises unbidden in every human breast. The servant is never explicitly commanded in the Bible to deal fairly with his employer by giving him honest service. If juster relations more generally prevailed between master and servant to-day, if employer and workman were animated by greater good feeling towards each other.
