Home Influence by Rev. Mr. Cuyler

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1873

Home Influence.

By Rev. Mr. Cuyler

If the father chiefly talks “money, money,” at home, he generally rears a family in the worship of the almighty dollar. If he talks mainly horses, games, and races, he breeds a batch of sportsmen. If fashion is the family altar, then the children are offered up as victims on that altar. If a man makes his own fireside attractive, he may reasonably hope to anchor his own children around it. My neighbor Q—— makes himself the constant evening companion of his boys. The result is that his boys are never found in bad places. But if the father hears the clock strike eleven in a club house or the play house, he need not be surprised if the boys hear it strike twelve in the gaming room or the drinking saloon. If he puts the bottle on his own table, he need not wonder if a drunken son staggers in by and by at his front door. When the best friend that childhood and youth ought to have, becomes their foe, the home becomes the “starting point” for moral ruin.—Rev. Mr. Cuyler.