The Christian Home by Congregationalist

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Sep 25, 1913

The Christian Home

By Congregationalist

LOVE is the foundation of the home. But our own age has too much forgotten that on the parents' part it is love set in authority. The true home requires much more than a providing and acquiescent affection. It needs a love which guides and teaches and controls; and such controlling love is a blessing to those who are under its authority. Parental love which refuses this responsibility is but a form of selfishness. There are too many homes in America where the easy-going temper, which would be amazed if denied the name of love, is doing its worst to ruin the lives of the children. At the other extreme, of course, and equally to be avoided, is the love which wears a mask of severity and fails to reveal itself as love. But that is an infrequent danger nowadays beside the other. We must show what Christ can do in the home, or we shall be forced to apologize for our Christianity. This we can do only by making him our life companion. There is no need of preaching if our life is true to its own ideals of service.

— Congregationalist.