| Home Making |
Chapter 7 |
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In the foregoing chapters the part of each member of the family in the making of the home has been considered. The duties and responsibilities of the husband, of the wife, of the parents, of the children, of brothers and of sisters, have been touched upon. If all the different members of a family are faithful in their own places, doing their own part well, the home life will be a sweet song of holy peace. Whatever its experiences may be it will always have its undertone of joy. In its darkest nights of trial it will be brightened by the lamps of affection which no wintry blast can put out. Secluded from the world, sheltered by its own roof, containing in itself the sources of happiness, and not dependent upon the outside world for its gladness and joy, it matters little whether it be day or night, whether it be calm or stormy without. The true home has a peace that is not broken by earth’s tempests. Its love is a fountain of blessing that does not waste in summer weather and is not frozen in coldest winter. The possibilities of happiness and blessing in household life are simply incalculable. All that is needed is that each member faithfully does his own part.
It may be profitable at this point to touch upon a few of the particular phases and incidents of home life common to all households. There is nothing insignificant in the life that we live within our own doors. There is nothing that is without influence in the building up of character. On some old rocks the geologist shows you the tracks of birds made ages and ages ago, and the print of the leaf that fell or the dents made by the pattering raindrops. It was soft sand then, but it hardened afterward into rock, and these marks were preserved, imperishable records of the history of a day that shone uncounted centuries ago. Let no one think that the history of any day in the life of a home is recorded any less imperishably on the sensitive lives of the children.
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