Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Home. [ARTICLE]

Home.

Home means rest, familiarity, love, truth, a fruitful waste of time, selfsacrifice. It is the true life, the end iu Itself, for which almost everything else is a mere Instrument or preparation. It is old-fashioned doctrine, but none the less true. The real test of what a man verily is is his home life. The man who cares nothing for home, who does ftothing to make his home happy, who is for ever longing for new faces and new scenes, may not necessarily be vicious; but he is “In a parlous state,” and the ready prey for the great enemy of souls. And the wife who cannot make a home may be very beautiful and very brilliant, ‘the obserevd of all observers,” the belle of her set, the best-known name in society; but, after all, she lacks that something, that pearl of great price, without which she comes short of true womanliness.