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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1900

King’s Messenger.

HOME is delightful if the Comforter dwells therein. Here is where he delights to abide. We try to make him fit into the church, but he is more at home in the home. We neglect the home for the church, for the society, for the saloon, and we lose and miss the Holy Spirit. We may go to church too much, may neglect home for social and charitable life, but there is little danger of paying too much attention to the home, or of spending too much time at home.

A Holy Ghost home has the atmosphere of heaven,—no faultfinding, no complaining, no contention, but joy, peace, love, in honor preferring one another. Home is unappreciated because it is not the resting place of the Holy Dove. It may be a dovecote, a sweet place of rest; it should be the sweetest, dearest place on earth to us and ours: and so it is, if the blessed Spirit has control. He is never harsh, nor hard, nor heavy. He breathes only gentleness and love. What affection between husband and wife, between parents and children, between employers and employees—the very atmosphere of the better life! As in home, so in store and shop, so in church and society—the precious presence of the Paraclete takes away all pharisaism, and brings in heaven.