p. 131 | HOME AND ITS QUEEN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1879

HOME AND ITS QUEEN.

THERE is probably not an unperverted man or woman living who does not feel that the sweetest consolations and best rewards of life are found in the loves and delights of home. There are very few who do not feel themselves indebted to the influences that clustered around their cradles for whatever good there may be in their character and condition. Home based upon Christian marriage is so evidently an institution of God, that a man must become profane before he can deny it. Wherever it is pure and true to the Christian idea, there lives an institution conservative of all the nobler instincts of society.

Of this realm woman is queen. It takes the cue and hue from her. If she is in the best sense womanly—if she is true and tender, loving and heroic, patient and self-devoted—she consciously and unconsciously organizes and puts in operation a set of influences that do more to mold the destiny of the nation than any man uncrowned by power of eloquence can possibly effect. The men of the nation are what mothers make them, as a rule; and the voice that these men speak in the expression of power is the voice of the women who bore and bred them. There can be no substitute for this. There is no other possible way in which the women of the nation can organize their influence and power that will tell so beneficially upon society and the State.—Scribner’s Monthly.