Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — How to Promote Peace in the Family. [ARTICLE]

How to Promote Peace in the Family.

I. Remember that our will is likely to be crossed every day, so prepare for'it. ___A:.Everybody in the house has an evil nature as well as ourselves, and therefore we are not to expect too much. 3. To learn the different temper and disposition of each rtdividual. 4. To look on each member of the family as one for whom we should have a care. 5. When any good happens to any one to rejoice at it. 6. When inclined to give an angry answer, to “ overcome evil with good.” 7. If from sickness, pain or infirmity we feel irritable, to keep a strict watch over ourselves. To observe when others are suffering, to drop a ’word of kindness and sympathy suited to tHeTn.” 9. To watch for little opportunities of pleasing, and to put little annoyances out of the way. 10. To take a cheerful view of everything, of the weather, and encourage hope. 11. To speak kindly of the servants —to praise them for little things when you can. * 12. In all little pleasures_which may occur to put self last. 13. To try for “ the soft answer which turneth away wrath.” 14. Whenwe have been pained by an unkind word or deed, to ask ourselves: “ Have I not often done the same and been forgiven?”