The Christian’s Home Life by F. M. W.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 18, 1909

The Christian’s Home Life

By F. M. W.

THE Christian will ever manifest due consideration for the rights of others. By a spirit of kindness and gentleness, he will prove that the power which rules his life is from above. Perhaps the most practical demonstration he will give of this will be in his own home. Here restraint, in a measure, is thrown aside. He associates daily with those whom he knows intimately, and with those who in turn know him. What he may say or do the world as a rule will know little about. He can act with little restraint.

Then, too, it is the little things of life which are the test of character, and the home is the place where these little trifles must be dealt with. In the home some of the greatest failures in Christian experience are witnessed. Many men and women who have met and conquered some of the great trials, have gone down to defeat before some of the little things of life. Jealousy, faultfinding, and impatience have done their evil work. Little by little faith has lost its power, and hope its brightness, and the soul has been turned away from God.

In God’s purpose the home should be made a citadel of strength and power in the life of every one of its inmates. The exercise of love and tenderness, of confidence and mutual regard, of courtesy and consideration, will weld together the hearts of parents and children, and make them beat in unison in their daily association and in their plans and purposes. The home should be a place of rest and refuge, of glad and happy reunion and communion, for every member of the family circle. In such a home God will dwell, around it the holy angels will linger, and from it will go forth an influence strong for truth and right. F. M. W.