The Home.

White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 208, 18 October 1912, Page 15

The Home.

♦ FOR MOTHERS Children need models more than criticism. To bring up a child in the wav he should go, travel that way v ourself. The sooner you get 1 « d * o le a law unto himself, the sooner you will make a man of him. We can never check what is evil in the voting unless we cherish whit is good in them. Stories first heard at a mother’s knee are never wh 11 v fopoitt n, a little spring that never dries tin in our journey through sc reh ng years. Line upon line, precept upon pre cept, we must have in a home. But we must also have serenity,

peace, and the absence of petty fault-finding, if a h<>me is to be a nursery fit for heaven's growing plants. There are no men or women, however poor they may he, but have it in their power by the grace of God to leave behind them the grandest thing on earth character ; and tlieir children might rise up after them and thank (»od that their mother was a pious woman, or their father a pious man. —1). McLEOD. Cur life is like the dial of a clink. The hands are God’s Hands passing over and over again; the short hand the Hand of Mercy. Slowly and surelv the Hand of Discipline must pass, and God speaks .it each stroke ; but over and over passes the Hand of Mercy, showering down sixtv-fold of blessings for each stroke of discipline or trial ; and loth Hands are fastened to one secure pivot, the great (inch iiiging Heart of a God of Love. —Florence A. Armstring.