{"id":1309,"date":"2022-12-09T17:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=1309"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:58:16","slug":"pg-xii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-pearl-of-days\/pg-xii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. xii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0008_thumb-647x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0008_thumb-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0008_thumb-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0008_thumb-768x1216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0008_thumb-970x1536.jpg 970w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0008_thumb-1294x2048.jpg 1294w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0008_thumb-scaled.jpg 1617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Xii<\/strong> <strong>INTRODUCTION.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is the devout and holy thought expressed in the following stanza:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c The trivial round, the common task, Should furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How admirably are brought out, in every part of this Sketch, some of those lessons most profitable for the wife and the mother to practise ! What a valuable one, for example, is this ! My mother \u201cused to say that it was disagreeable and improper to be bustling about while father was within; and when he was gone out, the work must be done up.\u201d Oh that wives and mothers understood and practised this wisely and well! What different scenes would the cottager\u2019s home present if they did! How many a man would be saved from the alehouse fireside, where comfort and convenience are studied to seduce him into sin, if wives and mothers would but so order their households that when the father returns his coming shall be welcomed by cleanliness and peace, and his home shall be made to him the most blessed and grateful place that he can find!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xii INTRODUCTION.&nbsp; is the devout and holy thought expressed in the following stanza:&nbsp; \u201c The trivial round, the common task, Should furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves; a road To bring us, daily, nearer God.\u201d&nbsp; How admirably are brought out, in every part of this Sketch, some of those lessons most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1018,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1309\/revisions\/1336"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}