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XVI.
The Home
Chapter 177
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A Happy Home,
and How to Make it
1. WHERE and by whom
were the foundations of home laid?
"And the Lord God planted a
garden eastward in Eden; and there
He put the man whom He had formed." Gen. 2:8.
2. In making this home,
what besides man was needed?
"And the Lord God said, It is not
good that the man should be alone; I will make
him an help meet [one adapted, or
suitable] for him." Verse 18.
3. After creating Adam
and Eve, what did God say to them?
"And God blessed them, and God said
unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth." Gen. 1:28.
4. To what are the wife
and children of the man who fears the Lord
likened?
"Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be
well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a
fruitful vine by the sides of thine house:
thy children like olive-plants round
about thy table." Ps. 128:2,3.
5. What are children
declared to be?
"Lo, children are an heritage of
the Lord." Ps. 127:3. "Children's children
are the crown of old men; and the glory
of children are their fathers." Prov. 17:6.
6. How should the wife
relate herself to her husband?
"Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ
is the head of the church." Eph. 5:22,23.
7. And how should
husbands regard their wives?
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ
also loved the church, and gave Himself for
it. . . . So ought men to love their wives as
their own bodies. He that loveth his wife
loveth himself. . . . Let every one of you in
particular so love his wife even as himself;
and the wife see that she reverence her
husband." Verses 25-33.
8. Against what are
husbands cautioned?
"Husbands, love your wives, and be
not bitter against them." Col. 3:19.
9. Why should wives be
in subjection to their husbands?
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection
to your own husbands; that, if any obey not
the word, they also may without the word be won
by the conversation [manner of life] of the
wives." 1 Peter 3:1.
10. Why should husbands
be considerate of their wives?
"Likewise; ye husbands, dwell with
them according to knowledge, giving honor unto
the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as
being heirs together of the grace of life;
that your prayers be not hindered." Verse 7.
11. Why should children
obey their parents?
"Children, obey your parents in the
Lord: for this is right." Eph. 6:1.
12. How should parents
bring up their children?
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your
children to wrath: but bring them up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord." Verse
4.
13. Why should fathers
not provoke their children to anger?
"Fathers, provoke not your children
to anger, lest they be discouraged." Col.
3:21.
14. By what means may
the mother bind the hearts of the loved ones at
home together?
"She openeth her mouth with
wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of
kindness." Prov. 31:26.
NOTE.-"We want to get into the hearts of our
children if we hold them, and help them, and
bless them, and take them to heaven with
us."- Frances Murphy.
15. How will such a
mother be regarded?
"Her children arise up, and call
her blessed; her husband also, and he
praiseth her." Verse 28.
NOTE.-"Show me a loving husband, a worthy
wife, and good children, and no pair of
horses that ever flew along the road could
take me in a year where I could see a more
pleasing sight. Home is the grandest of all
institutions."- Spurgeon.
16. How faithfully
should parents teach the precepts and
commandments of God to their children?
"And thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk
of them when thou sittest in thine house, and
when thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up." Deut.
6:7.
NOTES.-"The home should be made a school of
instruction, rather than a place of
monotonous drudgery. The evenings should be
cherished as precious seasons, to be devoted
to the instruction of the children in the
way of righteousness. But how many children
are sadly neglected! They are not educated
in the home, that they may comprehend the
truth of God, and are not trained to love
justice and to do judgment. They should be
patiently instructed, that they may
understand the laws that govern them, and
that they may know the springs of their
actions. They are to be brought into harmony
with the laws of heaven, to cherish the
truth as it is in Jesus. In this way they
may be fitted to join the society of the
angels, and to stand in the presence of the
adorable Redeemer."- Sabbath School
Worker, August, 1896.
"A church within a church, a republic within
a republic, a world within a world, is
spelled by four letters- home! If things go
right there, they go right everywhere; if
things go wrong there, they go wrong
everywhere. The door-sill of the
dwelling-house is the foundation of church
and state. . . . In other words, domestic
life overarches and undergirds all other
life. . . . First, last, and all the time,
have Christ in your home."- Talmage.
17. What is the great
secret of a happy home?
"Better is a dinner of herbs where
love is, than a stalled ox and hatred
therewith." Prov. 15:17.
HAPPY the home when God is there,
And love fills every breast;
When one their wish, and one their prayer,
And one their heavenly rest.
Happy the home where Jesus' name
Is sweet to every ear;
Where children early lisp His fame,
And parents hold Him dear.
Happy the home where prayer is heard,
And praise is wont to rise;
Where parents love the Sacred Word,
And live but for the skies. |
