“The father is the head of the home, with gentle dignity acting his full part as head. He is the priest and minister to his household. The simple word of thanksgiving at the meal, the gathering of the family together, morning or night or both for reading a bit out of the old Book of God, and in simplest language giving thanks, and asking a blessing upon the circle – these belong to the father.
The father is a human mediator between God and those whom he has created with God’s partnership. He stands to his for God, to teach of God, to lead in the worship of God, and to act the part of God’s man to his own inner circle.
The father is the administrator of the home, with wisdom and firmness and much loving gentleness . . . He is the teacher and companion of his children . . . With the mother, he is in his home the teacher of the school, the consulting librarian of the book world, the president of the literary society, and of the social club, the chief craftsman of the workshop to the group he is fathering.”
~ S. D. Gordon