A Difference | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 16.

A Difference.

THERE is an important difference between a house and a home. Men build houses; God builds the home. The house furnishes shelter for its inmates from storms, in heat and cold; the home is a place of love, of training in all that is unselfish, generous, and good. We need to be careful that in our hurry, and worldly strife, we do not make our homes simply places in which to stay, to sleep, to eat. Let us strive to make them, rather, centers of joy through domestic affection, places of discipline in all that refines and beautifies the spirit of man, sanctuaries in which God dwells, and where, with devout reverence, he is loved and worshiped. The house may be poor and humble, the home grandly beautiful. God grant that ours may be such homes, little foretastes of the home above. May we all have a place in that home.—Sabbath Recorder.