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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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HOME HAPPINESS.

PROBABLY nineteen-twentieths of the happiness you will ever have you will get at home. The independence that comes to a man when his work is over, and he feels he has run out of the storm into the quiet harbor of home where he can rest in peace with his family, is something real. It does not make much difference whether you own your house or whether you have one little room in that house, you can make that little room a true home to you. You can people it with such moods, you can turn to it with such sweet fancies, that it will be fairly luminous with their presence, and will be to you the very perfection of a home. Against this home none of you should ever transgress. You should always treat each other with courtesy. It is often not so difficult to love a person as it is to be courteous to them. Courtesy is of greater value and a more royal grace than some people seem to think. If you will but be courteous to each other you will soon learn to love each other more wisely, profoundly, not to say lastingly, than you ever did before.