A Godless House | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1871

A Godless House.

A LITTLE boy three years old, whose father was irreligious, spent several months in the dwelling of a godly family, where he was taught the simple elements of divine truth.

The good seed fell into good and tender soil, and the child learned to note the difference between a prayerless and a Christian dwelling. One day, as some one was conversing with the little fellow about the great and good God, the child said:

“We haven't got any God at my papa’s house.”

Alas! how many such houses there are in our world and land—houses where there is no prayer, no praise, no worship, no God! And what homes are they for children? ay, and for men and women too? How much better is the pure atmosphere of Christian love than the cold selfish worldliness of a godless home!

Said an ungodly man, “I never was so near Heaven, and probably never shall be again, as when I spent a day in the house of Ebenezer Brown,” a godly Scotchman, who guided his household in the fear of the Lord.

Would that there were more such homes, the memory of which might shed a holy savor over many a wanderer's heart, and lead the sad and lonely sons of sorrow and of tears to look forward to the gladness of the eternal gathering beyond the toils and tears and trials of this weary pilgrimage. To such homes the weary come for rest, and the troubled for consolation. The Son of Peace is there. Blessed be such homes! and may ours ever be of this number!—British Workman.