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The Family Altar

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 4, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 22.

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The Family Altar

By J. T. Stocking

THE true home must have God as its center and foundation. What we need today for the betterment of our family life is not primarily better laws to regulate marriage and divorce, not better industrial conditions, though all these are earnestly to be prayed for, not better housing of our people and the making possible for them of a greater privacy, not more permanency in the rooftree, not more history of family, but the greater enthronement of God by the fireside. The home without God in it, and worship in it, in which Christ’s Spirit is not welcome, is more empty and hollow than the most desolate deserted house that is open to the winter winds.—J. T. Stocking, in “The Dearest Spot on Earth.”