THE CHRISTIAN HOME

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 March 1951, Page 3

THE CHRISTIAN HOME

Its distinguishing quality is that Jesus Christ is the centre and all its members seek to obey His laws of selfdenying love. A Christian home would be: — 1. A community where ail members form a spiritual fellowship founded on loyalty and love. 2. A place of physical well-being, where essential needs are supplied and where order, cleanliness and simple beauty prevail. 3. A haven of peace, security and refreshment for body, mind and spirit, wdtere God’s loving care is daily demonstrated. 4. A schorl where Christian habits and attitudes are exemplified by the older members of the family and lovingly taught to the children from their earliest years; where parents cooperate in the discipline and teaching and receive, in turn, what the children have to give. 5. A working fellowship of equal privilege for both sexes, affording an atmosphere in which each member, old and young, may grow', and in which bis best contribution can be made; and in which concerns affecting one and all are shared alike by all. 6. A refuge where the personality of each has freedom to develop. 7. A place of vision, where widening social and world horizons open out before each member of the family, its guests and those who serve within it, so that the home become* a Chriitian leaven in the community. “Tambaram.”