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The Ministry of Healing
simple home attractive and inviting, if love and contentment are
there.
Beautiful Surroundings
God loves the beautiful. He has clothed the earth and the heavens
with beauty, and with a Father’s joy He watches the delight of His
children in the things that He has made. He desires us to surround
our homes with the beauty of natural things.
Nearly all dwellers in the country, however poor, could have
about their homes a bit of grassy lawn, a few shade trees, flowering
shrubbery, or fragrant blossoms. And far more than any artificial
adorning will they minister to the happiness of the household. They
will bring into the home life a softening, refining influence, strength-
ening the love of nature, and drawing the members of the household
nearer to one another and nearer to God.
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