Nowhere is Christianity more effectual and more beautiful than in the home life. Nowhere is the power of divine love so truly manifested as in a sincere Christian home. We will set a picture before you. A father and mother with their children are grouped together for the evening worship. The father out of the deep affections of his soul, in spiritual tones, speaks of God and his holy commandment. A tear of gratitude and joy is glistening in the mother’s affectionate eye. The children’s faces are beaming with admiration as they hear extolled the character of Christ. They kneel in prayer; a holy awe and sacredness rests upon the scene; their prayers arise as sweet incense into the nostrils of God and delight his great heart. Such a scene as we have pictured only fitly represents a true Christian home. The father is all tenderness and love to his wife and children. He is kind and sympathetic. He regards his wife as the weaker vessel and is mindful of her happiness. The wife deeply reverences her husband. Affection and appreciation sparkle in her eye. To attend to the husband’s wishes is her delight. They love their children and in gentleness are bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The children love each other and are kind and self-denying. They obey their parents through love. Alas! such a family is rarely found upon this sin-cursed earth. But such is taught and commanded in the Bible, and it is possible. If a father and mother and children lived toward each other just as the Bible says they should live, we would have a scene that would fitly represent heaven. It is our privilege to have just such a home. “Ask, and it shall be given you.” A happy home life is the most blessed life on earth. “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.” Psa. 128:3. Duty Of Children To Parents. It was the original design of God that children should be a blessing to their parents. “My son, be wise, and make my heart glad.” Prov. 27:11. “The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.” Prov. 23:24, 25. “A wise son maketh a glad father.” Prov. 15:20. You will observe, children, in each of the above texts that it is wisdom in a child that makes parents rejoice. Then you should “seek wisdom, seek understanding.” “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.” Prov. 4:7. What is wisdom? “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” The highest honor a child can pay to a true parent is to honor and obey God: “And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart and with all thy soul.” Deut. 30:2. “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not.” Eccl. 12:1.