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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 2, 1911

The Home

THE home is more than a shelter, more than a museum, more than a place for eating and sleeping, and more than a furniture warehouse. It is the repository of joys and sorrows, the asylum from the whole world outside, for the family that dwells within its gates. Two persons have chosen each other as life comrades, and between them they have made a home. If you would have happiness in this closest and most sacred relation, a relation which ought to be permanent and sacramental, avoid the first quarrel. If there never is a first, there will never be a second. Resolve, if there is friction, to keep it to yourselves, and, commonplace as the counsel is, do not let a quarrel last overnight. Life is too uncertain, too full of risks, and there are too many possible heartaches for the most fortunate, to make it safe for wife and husband ever to part in anger. Though the parting be but for a day, let it be in peace and love.

On the whole, those whose means are moderate, who must work together, plan together, and save together, are to be congratulated. Great wealth is the lot, after all, of the minority. In this country, at least, it is beset by temptations which do not confront those whose earning and spending are matters of serious thought. Entire confidence as to home finance, and equal privileges in the management of the common income, will go far toward the prevention of unseemly disputes.—Selected.