The Missing Home-Maker.
By Rollin A. Sawyer
THE salvation of a boy is a home that to him is heaven. And it is only a good woman who can be the saving angel to child or man. When a boy at school or in business thinks of "going home" as the end of all longings, wearyings, waitings, plans, and hopes, he knows the delights of the saved. And his paradise is made for him by a mother who is worth the name, possibly with sisters of equal merit. Father and brothers are simply comfortable and convenient accessories. When we say that "the sphere of woman is the home," we mean just this angelic ministry to human life, the making of a true heavenly home. If a woman helped us out of paradise, she is the only created thing that can make another. That is her peculiar prerogative and her unique power. She, and only she, can make the heaven of home. If she fails, we go heavenless to a purgatory of possibilities that has missed a redemptive opportunity. The strongest delusion of our American women is that they can do more for their men and their country by being abroad and keeping before the public. Exceptional women do something that way. But the women of this and of any age must put heaven into our private life or we shall live in hell.—Rollin A. Sawyer, D.D.