The Christian Home..

The Christian Home

The importance of the home cannot easily be overstated.

It is the great world-fountain of health or disease, of medicine or poison.

It is God's best workshop or the devils best forge.

It is a supreme factor in the salvation or ruination of our race.

It is a determining factor in the solution of many problems.

As is the home, so will be the church, the state, and the nation.

By weakening the pillars of the home in the "interest" of the state, ancient Greece sealed its own doom.

Because of corruption in the families, the boasted civilization of Rome could not endure.

And today the threads of destiny of our own nation are being silently woven within the narrow confines of our family circles.

Upon the walls of every institution which fails to include in its reckoning the home, no matter how glowing its prospects may seem, no matter how sumptuous and hilarious its feasting may be there is traced by secret hand the writing:

"Thou hast been weighed in the balance and found wanting."

In the home where the Gospel of Jesus Christ lives and reigns there will be a true parenthood.

A greater and holier work can scarcely be imagined than to build a home, to correctly rear a family, to root and ground one's own in the truth, and to send them out as living epistles to glorify their God and serve their fellowmen..

A neighbour once asked a mother, "Do you do any literary work?"

"Yes," she replied, "I am writing two books."

"What are their titles?"

"John and Mary," she answered.

"My business is to write upon the hearts and minds of my children the lessons they will never forget." 

 

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