p. 13 | A Christian Home

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 11, 1914

A Christian Home

A CHRISTIAN home—why is it such a fine and precious thing?—Because it is a garden of the Lord, a nursery for human lives to grow in. Its rich, fertile soil furnishes the very best field for the development of the virtues which we most need. Its seclusion, its shelter, its wise and careful culture, are invaluable to growing souls, and nothing can make up for the lack of them.

The home is the God-appointed educator of mankind. We have a multitude of institutions which we call schools, but the real schools, where the real lessons of life are learned, are the homes of America. We hear a great deal about the higher education, but there is a higher education still, the highest that can be had. It is found in the lofty lessons of self-control and self-sacrifice and sublime faith and splendid trust which home life has such marvelous power to teach. There is no training to be had in school, or college, or anywhere in the world which can take the place of the discipline of home. Every true, Christian home is a university, fully equipped, amply endowed, and able to give the highest education which can be got in this world.—Baltimore Sun.