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HOUSEHOLD RULES

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 29.

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HOUSEHOLD RULES.

The following rules were formulated by a lady for the guidance of her own personal conduct, but they are good for general use:—
1. We may be sure that our will is likely to be crossed to-day, so prepare for it.
2. Everybody in this house has an evil nature as well as ourselves, and therefore we are not to expect too much.
3. To learn the different temper of each individual.
4. To look upon each member of the family as one for whom Christ died.
5. When any good happens to any one to rejoice at it.
6. When inclined to give an angry answer, to lift up the heart in prayer.
7. If from sickness, pain, or infirmity we feel irritable, to keep a very strict watch over ourselves.
8. To observe when others are so suffering, and drop a word of kindness and sympathy suited to their wants.
9. To watch for little opportunities of pleasing, and to put little annoyances out of the way.
10. To take a cheerful view of everything.
11. In all little pleasures which may occur to put self last.
12. To try the soft answer which “turneth away wrath.”
13. When we have been pained by an unkind word or deed, to ask ourselves, “Have I not often done the same and been forgiven?”
14. In conversation not to exalt ourselves but to bring others forward.
15. To be very gentle with the younger ones and treat them with respect, remembering that we were once young.
16. Never to judge another, but to attribute a good motive when we can.
17. To compare our manifold blessings with the trifling annoyances of the day.
If anything farther is needed, it may be found in this one sentence of our Saviour, “All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” Matt. 7:12. This covers the whole ground, without giving details.