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commandments may be. Christ will be glorified; His peace and grace
and love will pervade the family circle like a precious perfume.—
The
Review and Herald, November 17, 1896
. (
The Adventist Home, 17
.)
The Peace Principle—There is no fretfulness seen in the home
if Christ is the peace principle exercised in your soul. There is no
uncourteousness there. There is no roughness or sharp speech there.
Why? Because we believe and act out that we are members of the
Royal Family, children of the Heavenly King, bound to Jesus Christ by
the strongest tie of love—that love which works by faith and purifies
the soul. You love Jesus and you are constantly at work to overcome
all selfishness and to be a blessing, and comfort, and strength, and a
support to the souls He has purchased with His blood.
I cannot see why we should not the more earnestly try to bring the
peace of Christ right into our family than to labor for those that have
no living connection with us; but if we have religion in the home, it
will extend outside of the home. You will have it everywhere. You
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will carry it with you to the church. You can carry it with you when
you go out to your work. It will be with you wherever you shall be.
What we want is religion in the home. What we need is the peace
principle which shall control our spirit and our life and character after
the Christlife He has given as His example.—
Manuscript 36, 1891.
Love Revealed in Action—From every Christian home a holy
light should shine forth. Love should be revealed in action. It should
flow out in all home intercourse, showing itself in thoughtful kindness,
in gentle, unselfish courtesy. There are homes where this principle is
carried out—homes where God is worshiped and truest love reigns.
From these homes, morning and evening prayer ascends to God as
sweet incense, and His mercies and blessings descend upon the sup-
pliants like the morning dew.—
Patriarchs and Prophets, 144
(1890).
Christianity in Home Shines Everywhere—The effort to make
the home what it should be—a symbol of the home in heaven—
prepares us for work in a larger sphere. The education received by
showing a tender regard for each other enables us to know how to
reach hearts that need to be taught the principles of true religion. The
church needs all the cultivated spiritual force which can be obtained,
that all, and especially the younger members of the Lord’s family,
may be carefully guarded. The truth lived at home makes itself felt in
disinterested labor abroad. He who lives Christianity in the home will