WHAT can be happier than a Christian home, where the Lord is known, loved and obeyed? There is light in the dwelling—the light of heaven. It is a profitable study to go through the Scriptures and see God’s thoughts as to the family. We find that His grace reaches out to all members of the household, is offered to all. “Come thou and all thy house into the ark.” “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Gen. 7:1; Acts 16:31).

We also find that His claims for obedience are upon the entire family, and the parents are responsible to bring up the children in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4). A man’s faithfulness is shown by the order he maintains in the house. “I know him that he will command his children and his household after him” (Gen. 18:19; 1 Tim. 3:4).

Nor does this mean that gloom and sadness will pervade the home, but exactly the reverse. God’s own joy and light, where He is known in grace, will fill each heart, so that even the little ones will share in it. Home thus becomes the most attractive of all places, the happy asylum from the worry and care of business, the nursery for the tender little ones, and the busy beehive of Christian industry. May our God make more such homes.

—S.R.