"Good Farming," The Gospel Messenger vol. 1 no. 12 (Sept. 1879)
Home comforts are the best of all comforts, and blessed is that man who makes a living at home. I feel very miserable at times at the thought of being seemingly more gentle, kind and patient, to other people than to my own family. Whilst I have taken some pains with my children, it seems nevertheless to me, that I have neglected them, in that I have not been gentle and patient, but as it were, aloof from them. No wonder if we have failed towards our children, that they fail towards us, and like Absalom for David, proclaim our neglect upon the house tops. |
