Section IV — Factors that make for success or failure
- Section I — The home beautiful
- Section II — A light in the community
- Section III — Choosing the life partner
- Section IV — Factors that make for success or failure
- Section V — From the marriage altar
- Section VI — The new home
- Section VII — Heritage of the lord
- Section VIII — The successful family
- Section IX — Father, the house-band
- Section X — Mother—queen of the household
- Section XI — Children—the junior partners
- Section XII- -Standards of family living
- Section XIII — The use of money
- Section XIV — Guarding the avenues of the soul
- Section XV — Graces that brighten family life
- Section XVI — The home and its social relationships
- Section XVII — Relaxation and recreation
- Section XVIII — Thou shalt be recompensed
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Section IV — Factors that make for success or failure
A. Read pages 79-96.AH-SG 13.2
B. Check your knowledge:AH-SG 13.3
1. What is Satan “constantly busy” trying to do? (80:2.)
AH-SG 13.4
2. What causes “great confusion in the church”? (80:3.)
AH-SG 13.5
“There are many of the young whom God would accept as laborers in the various branches of His work, but Satan steps in and so entangles them in his web that they become _______________________________ from God and ______________________ in His work.” (81:1.)AH-SG 13.7
4. Complete: “The happiness and prosperity of the married life depend upon the __________________ of the parties.” (84:1.)AH-SG 13.8
5. What two things must one be able to do to have a successful home? (84:2.)
AH-SG 13.9
6. When one finds that he has made a mistake in marriage, what should he do? (85:0.)
AH-SG 13.10
7. In such a case what should be the life study of both husband and wife? (85:1.)
AH-SG 13.11
8. Complete: “Neither was at all fitted for the ________________________ of married life.” (85:2.)AH-SG 13.12
9. What is an essential part of education? (87:1.)
AH-SG 13.13
10. Every girl should have a knowledge of what? (87:3.)
AH-SG 13.14
11. What should she know about the human body? (87:3.)
AH-SG 13.15
12. Complete: “Idleness is a __________.” (88:1.)AH-SG 13.16
13. Should every woman be trained in some business that would enable her to make a living? (91:3.)
AH-SG 13.17
14. Complete: “Hearts that are filled with the love of Christ __________________________________________________.” (94:2.)AH-SG 13.18
15. Complete: “The spirit that Christ manifests toward His church is the spirit that the husband and wife _______________ _____________________________________________.” (95:1.)AH-SG 13.19
16. Complete: “You will both be happy if you try to please each other. Keep the windows of the soul closed _________________ and opened _________________.” (96:1.)AH-SG 13.20
C. Rate the value of your companionship: AH-SG 14.1
Elevating _______Worth-while _____ Worthless _____ Degrading _____AH-SG 14.2
1. What is your greatest contribution as a companion? ____________________________________________________________AH-SG 14.3
2. What is your poorest contribution as a companion?____________________________________________________________AH-SG 14.4
D. Discuss with others:AH-SG 14.5
1. “Early marriages are not to be encouraged.” (79:1.)AH-SG 14.6
2. Give reasons why it is not advisable to have a great disparity in age between marriage partners. (81,82.)AH-SG 14.7
3. Wily are young people tempted to contract early marriages?
AH-SG 14.8
4. Why are the words “politeness” and “courtesy” used so frequently in describing the Christian home? (83:1.)
AH-SG 14.9
5. “It should be a law that young people should not get married unless they know how to care for the children that are brought into their family.” (88:3.)AH-SG 14.10
6. What kind of homemaking course should be offered in college? in the academy? (88:4.)AH-SG 14.11
7. What duties should be given a nine- or ten-year-old girl?
AH-SG 14.12
8. Who is to teach a child to be self-supporting? (93:1.)
AH-SG 14.13
E. Think on these things:AH-SG 14.14
1. Which of these evils frequently result from early marriages?AH-SG 14.15
a. Wretched unions. (79:3.)
b. Disgraceful separations. (79:3.)
c. Unhappy existence. (79:3.)
d. A poisoned atmosphere in the home. (79:4.)
e. Confusion in the church. (80:3.)
f. Making a wreck of the happiness of the partners in this life and the life to come. (80:4.)AH-SG 14.16
2. What effect has immature marriage on physical health and mental vigor? (80:1.)
AH-SG 14.17
3. Which do you prefer, a few years of popularity in your teens and a life of misery, or a few years of loneliness in your teens and a life of happiness?
AH-SG 14.18
4. Which is of greater importance, study of books or home duties?
AH-SG 14.19
5. If one must be neglected, which should it be, your children or your college degree?AH-SG 14.20
6. Am I raising my children in such a way that they will be prepared for the practical duties of married life?
AH-SG 15.1
7. “There are families without number whose happiness is wrecked by the inefficiency of the wife and mother.” (91:4.)AH-SG 15.2
8. “No man is excusable for being without financial ability.” (93:1.)AH-SG 15.3