Quiet Talks on Home Ideals
Gordon's comprehensive treatment of ideals and friendship in the context of home life, presenting ideals as divine standards that keep life at proper pitch and exploring how they shape relationships and God's plan for the Christian household.
85 Chapters
Table of Contents
1
Introduction
2
Chapter 1: Ideals
3
Idealizing Light.
4
Through God's Eyes.
5
An Opened Eye.
6
God's Tuning-forks.
7
"It's Raining Roses Down."
8
The Secret of Beauty.
9
The Practical Idealist.
10
Flying the Flag at the Tip-top.
11
The Secret of Making Ideals Real.
12
Chapter 2: The Finest Friendship
13
The Master Loomsman.
14
Clear Thinking Helps Right Living.
15
A Choosing Love.
16
Love's Sure Marks.
17
The Basis of Friendship.
18
God's Ideal Friendship Plan.
19
"Perfect Music unto Noble Words."
20
"Even as Christ."
21
The Divine-Human Trinity.
22
"Behold a Friend!"
23
A Bit of Real Life.
24
Chapter 3: Home — Where Love Reigns, And Trains
25
"Love, and the Smiling Face of Her."
26
The Birthplace of Institutions.
27
The Genius of Home.
28
The Holy of Holies.
29
The Nursery of Full-grown Souls.
30
The Birth of a Home.
31
The Meaning of Love.
32
The Real Test.
33
The Nazareth Home.
34
Chapter 4: The Finest Friendship's Finest Fruit
35
The Heart Mood.
36
"The Place Whereon Thou Standest is Holy Ground."
37
Fellow-workers with God.
38
"More of Reverence."
39
Chapter 5: Father—Mother
40
A Mothering Father.
41
The Greatest Word.
42
A Fathering God.
43
Learning to Father.
44
Father Language.
45
The Finest School Work.
46
Fatherhood.
47
A Window into Fatherhood.
48
The Superlative Degree of Woman.
49
The Symphony of Motherhood.
50
Teaching Life's Language to Baby Lips.
51
In Search of a Mother.
52
The Highest Union.
53
Chapter 6: The Babe
54
The Latest Marvel of Creation.
55
A Child for an Answer.
56
The Child Character Fresh from God.
57
The Babe is Telling the Glory of God.
58
"Their Angels."
59
Hurting a Child.
60
The Babe's First Request.
61
The Babe Preacher.
62
Some Blessed Sermons.
63
A Rare Experience.
64
Life's Best Finishing School.
65
Chapter 7: Heredity
66
The Lineal Face.
67
Fascinating Possibilities.
68
The Help of Heredity.
69
"The Blood is the Life."
70
Precious, Awful Power.
71
Deciding the Life-bent.
72
The Brooding Father.
73
Chapter 8: Training
74
The University of Arabia.
75
The Value of Training.
76
Blood and Training.
77
A Study in Shoes.
78
A Three-fold Cord.
79
Street Weeds.
80
The Heart Touch upon the Mind.
81
The Home Atmosphere.
82
The Child a Mirror of his Parents.
83
The Home University.
84
Waking a Queen.
85
"Tom Never Left Down the Bars Again."