Incompatibility of temper is a reason sometimes given for the breaking
up of a home, but the real reason is an undue familiarity and freedom
of speech. Because persons live together in families there should be
no license to say everything and anything, no matter who is hurt.
Home happiness is a tender plant, it needs much care and watching, but
when it blooms the flowers are of a rare beauty of form and their
fragrance exceeds that of all others.
THE PRESERVATION OF THE HOME
How may the home be preserved and made to serve its great end? There
are three ways, amongst a greater number, which are here indicated.
Personal Care.--All betterment of the home must begin with the
individual and every individual has a chance to exercise this care as
his lot is cast in some family. Thought, time, money, all need to be
employed in working out in a practical way the ideal of the true home.
Placing the Home Under the Care of God.--There is a need of the
reinstatement of the custom of family worship; the place and time
where and when the family is commended to God and placed under His
care. As children of the great household of God we need constantly to
keep in touch with our Father.
The Obedience of the Golden Rule, as it is stated in a new form: I
will not do unto others that which I would not have them do to me.
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