The sweetest and most sacred
spot on earth, Charles Orr, Christianity in Home Life. Nowhere is Christianity
more beautifully displayed than in the home. It changes the home
of wickedness, strife, and contention into a peaceful and delightful
Eden. It converts the home of the wicked
into a palace. It drives away discontentment,
uneasiness, fear, and darkness, and showers contentment, peace,
and sunlight into every heart. Christianity in home life makes
all love and kindness, between brothers and sisters, love and
dutifulness, between parents and children, love, peace, harmony,
honesty and faithfulness, between husband and wife. Christianity
makes a home a heaven. A Christian home, where all is
love and tenderness and devotion, is the sweetest and most sacred
spot on earth. A home, where Christianity is
crowned a queen in every heart, is an Eden. The heart of God
is filled with delight as he looks down upon such a home. His presence dwells there, and
causes this home to be a beautiful oasis in this wilderness world
of sin. Alas, that such homes are so
few! Sin destroys the happiness of
man, and makes many a home a hotbed of contention, strife, and confusion. when the husband and wife are
kind, loving, and gentle toward each other, when she, in her
weakness, feels her dependence upon him, and lovingly, trustingly,
looks unto him as her defence, and He, in His strength and delight,
enfolds her in His strong arms of protection, with a feeling
of responsibility to nourish and cherish her, then they can
testify that they have a heaven in their home. Unless we have
attained unto such a life, we have not attained to Bible Christianity,
nor to domestic joy and happiness.