THE HAPPY HOME by John Hall, D.D.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 30.

THE HAPPY HOME.

By John Hall, D.D.

I HAVE peeped into quiet parlors where the carpet is clean and not old, and the furniture is polished and bright, into rooms where the chairs are neat and the floor carpeted, into kitchens where the family live and the meals are cooked and eaten, and the boys and girls are as blithe and joyous as the sparrows overhead, and I see that it is not so much wealth, or learning, or clothes, or servants, or toil, or idleness, or town, or country, or station, as it is tone and temper, that render homes happy or wretched. And I see, too, that in town or country, good sense and kind feeling, and God's grace, make life what no teachers, or accomplishment, or means, or society can make it,—the opening stave of an everlasting psalm—the fair beginning of an endless and blessed existence—the goodly, modest, well-proportioned vestibule to a temple of God's building that shall never decay, nor wax old, nor vanish away.