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Where are the Children Tonight?

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 15, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 30.

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Where are the Children Tonight?

By H. Elizabeth Jones

OUT on the street, we know not where, Nobody seems to know or care, Spending the time we know not how— Hasten, some one, and find them now.
Share in their pleasures, join in their play, Give them a happy hour today; Make the home cheery and warm and bright, Hold them by love from the street tonight.
Boys and girls must have something to do, Find them something,—take part in it, too; Make them feel they are welcome at home, That you miss them truly when they are gone.
Don’t say too much about the noise, Let girls be girls, and boys be boys. The time may come when much you’d give To have them at home once more to live.
Read to them something nice and new, And let your words of reproof be few And wisely chosen. A little praise Will often win in these precious days.
Chide them kindly when they do wrong, And do not keep at the chiding long; Try to think of some better scheme Than always making their faults the theme.
It is well to house and to clothe and feed, But the mind and the heart have also need; And to freeze the heart and starve the mind For the want of good care is most unkind.
You may not have riches; it matters not, For home is home, be it palace or cot; So keep the heart warm and make the home bright, And hold the dear children with you tonight.
— H. Elizabeth Jones.