“Happy homes make a happy state. That happiness which implies a measure of worldly prosperity, is but the result of that purer happiness, which springs up in renewed hearts. Were all the members of all families actuated by the principles of true piety, the whole land would be enjoying the blessings of a true reformation. Thus the true method to secure national blessings, both in the destruction of vice and the promotion of virtue, is to secure family blessings.” — Benjamin Mosby Smith, Family Religion; or, The Domestic Relations Regulated by Christian Principles (1859, 1991), p. 177