Home Influence | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 3, 1879

Home Influence.

REV. DR. CUYLER, in one of his articles, talks in this wise of family topics:—

"If the father generally talks 'money, money,' at home, he generally rears a family in worship of the almighty dollar. If he talks mainly horses, games, and races, he breeds a batch of sportsmen. If fashion is the family altar, then the children are offered up as victims upon the altar. If a man makes his own fireside attractive, he may reasonably hope to anchor his own children around it. My neighbor Q—— makes himself the constant evening companion of his boys. The result is that his boys are never found in bad places. But, if the father hears the clock strike eleven in his club-house, or the play-house, he need not be surprised if his boys hear it strike twelve in the gaming-room, or the drinking saloon. If he puts the bottle on his own table, he need not wonder if a drunken son staggers in, by and by, at his front door. When the best friend that childhood and youth ought to have becomes their foe, the homes become the 'starting-post' for moral ruin."