To Make a House into a Home
By Bishop Vincent
THE biggest blunder you ever made was when you let your boy run things. What Young America needs above all things is untiring, uncompromising, gentle and affectionate parental authority. He likes it. Bring him up by it, and twenty years from now, after you are gone, if you got within ear-shot you'd hear him praising “the way father used to do.” Recreation is a necessity, but in a home where the mother and her guests sit for hours at the card-table playing for prizes, leaving the children in charge of servants, no amount of church-going and profession of belief will avail to develop character in those children. Home is the real test of character. No saint is ready for translation till he can live wisely, courageously, bravely, amiably and consistently at home. Self-control and silence know how to keep house—how to transform a house into a home—and willpower and good sense will teach one when and how long they should be exercised.