p. 14 | To the Home Department Readers by MRS. I. H. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1915

To the Home Department Readers

By MRS. I. H. E.

No amount of purely theoretical instruction, however correct in principle, can have the personal touch or carry the influence that comes from the story of actual experience,—experience that has been lived through trying hours, and that has perhaps brought knowledge only by suffering. Full speech comes from the overflowing heart, and that is the kind to which we may listen with profit.

Many Seventh-day Adventist mothers and teachers are daily learning in the great school of life. Much that they have gained would be a benefit and blessing to others similarly situated. Have you found new methods of lightening the housekeeper’s daily tasks, some way to economize time or strength or money, some way to let the blessed hope that you cherish in your own heart shine out to your neighbors? Has some special blessing and enlightenment come to you in dealing with the little ones under your care? Your experience may be just the help some one else has been longing for. Will you not take a little time to tell it to others?

Do not think that what you have to say will be of no value. It may be just the word needed to give a lift to one struggling with the problems you have solved.

Write for the Home Department. Tell, in short, practical articles, the things that have helped you or benefited others, and you may be sure they will receive a hearty welcome.

MRS. I. H. E.