THE

FAMILY MONITOR,

OR

A HELP TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS.

BY JOHN ANGELL JAMES,

AUTHOR OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHER'S PRESENT, CHRISTIAN CHARITY
EXPLAINED, THE CHURCH MEMBER'S GUIDE, &c. &c.

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
"It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even
Aaron's beard! that went down to the skirts of his garments: as the dew of Hermon, and
as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded
the blessing, even life for evermore."-PSALM CXXXIII.

FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION,

Corrected and Enlarged.

BOSTON :

PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER,
47 Washington Street.

1838.

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PREFA CЕ.

THE substance of the following chapters was delivered by the Author, in a course of sermons which followed a series of expository lectures on the Epistle to the Ephesians. The consecutive method of preaching, which he principally uses, is attended, he thinks, with this, among many other advantages, that it brings under the review of a minister, many subjects which would otherwise be overlooked; affords an opportunity for the introduction of some topics, which, from their peculiarity, seem to require such a way of access to the pulpit; and also furnishes an apology, for the discussion of others, which the fastidiousness of modern delicacy has almost excluded from the range of pastoral admonition. On entering upon the first branch of relative duties, the Author was so much under the influence, perhaps improperly, of this excess of refinement, and felt so much the difficulty of making a public statement of the duties of husbands and wives, that he had determined, at one time, to relieve himself from the embarrassment, by merely reading large