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Why Children Need Sunshine at Home

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 23, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 21.

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Why Children Need Sunshine at Home

MANY a child goes astray, not because there is a want of prayer or virtue at home, but simply because home lacks sunshine. A child needs smiles as much as flowers need sunbeams. Children look little beyond the present moment. If a thing pleases, they are apt to seek it; if it displeases, they are apt to avoid it. If home is the place where faces are sour, and words harsh and fault-finding are ever in the ascendant, they will spend as many hours as possible elsewhere.—Sidney Smith.