Making Our Homes Houses of God
By R. L. Herle
—It is pleasant to have tender-hearted devotional acts associated with our home. Wherever a forgetfulness of the higher things prevails, there should be hours at home when some help to aspire and to yearn for eternal things should be used. All of us need some times set apart to express what is best within us. If we have no piety at home, it is almost certain that we have it nowhere else, though we may pretend to have it. What we are at home is a pretty sure test of what we really are. Home is the most permanent thing we have—enduring when nations die and sects vanish and temples fall. Characters are chiefly formed at home. Then let us endeavor to make our homes “houses of God,” the most sacred and lovely of all places, including surely expressions of the best principles and affections—little heavens on earth.—R. L. Herle