Guarding the Ideal

Saturday. 1 Tim. 5: 1-8.

Home is love’s abiding-place. It may be palace or cabin or neither. It isn’t brick and timber, though these may hold most fragrant memories. It’s a school to learn in, a resting-place from toil for spirit and body, a shelter from storm, an atmosphere where the heart qualities come to richest fruitage. An ideal? Yes. Let studious restraint be on everything that would mar that ideal, and earnest cultivation be given everything that would make it real.