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Cherish the Home-Life

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 4, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 14.

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Cherish the Home-Life

CHERISH the home-life, the home-heart. Holy home influences last when all others perish.
The true home-life is the life of mutual helpfulness, when each does his or her part. In some families all the burdens rest upon the mother. The husband loves her, the children love her; but they do not love her enough to share her burdens, lighten her load, extend her leisure, keep from her the thousand and one petty things that the members ought to settle and bear themselves. Sometimes the overburdened is some other member.
The home-heart is not looking to be served, but to serve others. It finds its sweetest joy, its highest pleasure, in doing for others, in making others glad. How many times such service is unappreciated by selfish sons and daughters, who receive, but never give! If all the members of a family had the home-heart, no one would be doubly burdened. Each would be served and blessed by all; all would be served and blessed by each in turn. What better service could be asked?
This, we grant, is the ideal condition; but it is the condition to work for. Let us begin to-day by making it practical in ourselves without waiting for others.