TEMPER AT HOME by John Hall, D. D.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, November 25, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 47

TEMPER AT HOME.

By John Hall, D. D.

I HAVE peeped into quiet “parlors,” where the carpet is clean and not old, and the furniture polished and bright; into “rooms,” where the chairs are deal, and the floor carpetless; into “kitchens,” where the family live, and the meals are cooked and eaten, and where the boys and girls are as blithe as the sparrows in the hatch overhead; and I see that it is not so much wealth, nor learning, nor clothing, nor servants, nor toil, nor idleness, nor town, nor country, nor station, as it is tone and temper, that makes life joyous or miserable, that renders homes happy or wretched. And I see, too, that in town or country, good sense and God’s grace makes life what no teachers or accomplishments, or means or society, can make it,—the opening stave of an everlasting psalm, the fair beginning of an endless existence, the goodly, modest, well proportioned vestibule to a temple of God’s building, that shall never decay, wax old, or vanish away.—John Hall, D. D.