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Character Judged by the Family

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 12.

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Character Judged by the Family

The truest criterion of a man's character and conduct is invariably to be found in the opinion of his own family circle, who, having daily and hourly opportunities of forming a judgment of him, will not fail in doing so. It is a far higher testimony in his favor for him to secure the esteem and love of a few individuals within the privacy of his own home, than the good opinion of hundreds in his immediate neighborhood, or that of ten times the number residing at a distance. In fact, next to a close and impartial self-scrutiny, no question comes so near the truth as for a man to ask himself—"What is thought of me by the familiar circle of my own fireside?" Would that all remembered this!