Good Form and Christian EtiquetteHenry, S. M. I. (Sarepta Myrenda Irish)
Religion
Good Form and Christian Etiquette
Henry, S. M. I. (Sarepta Myrenda Irish)
Etiquette
The warnings of science, of which so many make light, are timely, and
should be religiously regarded as the authority of God by every one who
does not know within himself that he has so faithfully brought his whole
being into conformity with every law of life and health that he is clean
through and through, so that the sensitive lips of his babe can come to
his with the same certainty of a blessing in the caress that the bee has
when he goes to the white clover of the meadow.
He, and he only, who has brought himself fully into harmony with both
the letter and the spirit of Isaiah fifty-eight may freely give his lips
to his child, out of which to drink his fill of love. And the home that
is brought into this beautiful accord with Christ may be as the garden
of the Lord, from which all lips shall, with every caress, gather that
word of life that is sweeter than honey.
X.
The time is at hand when the truth must be taken into every lane and
walk of life—into king’s palaces, into halls of learning, into banquet
rooms, and into homes of refinement and culture, as well as to the
haunts of poverty and crime; for the whole earth must be filled with the
knowledge of the Lord. No soul must be left to arise in the second
resurrection and say, I did not know the way of life, or I would not
have been here. There are being prepared in all Christian homes those
who shall become the messengers of this gospel of the kingdom to every
rank, grade, and condition among men.
This is a consideration for every Christian mother and father. As among
the children of Israel every maiden held in her heart the secret hope
that she might be the mother of the promised seed of David, so now,
however humble and far away from every center of influence your home may
be, however meager its furnishing, however much you may seem to lack
incentive to noble effort, there should be inspiration in the thought
that the little child playing about your feet, whose life and habits you
are molding, may be one who shall be called to bear the vessel of the
Lord, which is his Word, filled with the holy oil of his Spirit, before
some council of earth’s great men, and to answer for the principles by
which the world is to receive its final test.
By this I do not mean that he may be called to suffer
martyrdom,—although that is possible—but I refer to the fact that he may
have the yet grander ministry of standing up to be quizzed and
catechized by those learned in the wisdom of the world concerning all
that he has been taught of Christian principle, health, disease, and
life in the Holy Ghost.
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