A Child's Definition of Home
By Sunday-School Times
A CHILD'S DEFINITION OF HOME.—A little brother and sister were talking about home and their love for it. "I wouldn't swap my home for any other in the world," said the sister. "Oh, I don't feel so," was the boy's response, "I think that Willie A——'s home is as pretty as ours. Its bigger and its got more things in it. I think I'd like to swap ours for that." "But would you like to give up your father and mother for his?" asked his sister. "And would you rather have his sisters than yours?" "No, I wouldn't want that," said the boy. "Well to swap home means that," said the sensible sister, "for a home itself isn't a home. A home is your father and mother, and brothers and sisters, and everything you have in the house." Wasn't that well said? Isn't there a truth in those words which is hid from many of the wise and prudent, and revealed unto babes? A well-furnished house is not a home. A home is the life and love which the family in the house represents. Who would swap his home for a rich neighbor's!—Sunday-School Times