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their lives. They endeavor to find happiness in financial gain, and in the pursuit of sinful pleasures. Their homes are filled with wrangling, bitterness, selfishness, and fi nally the divorce. The home is an institution of God and it cannot be very successfully operated without God. Love, joy, and peace in the home are gifts of God. These cannot very Well be present when God is absent. Fellow ship and sweet consideration for the comforts and joys of each other are the products and the results of the presence of God in your lives. I f He is not included in the program of your home, then there is a possibility that these beautiful attributes w ill be absent. At the wedding at Cana in Galilee, the joy of the bridal couple was not complete until the Lord Jesus Christ came with His rich blessing which none other could provide. You will find it so in your own lives. True love is a strange plant. ’ It needs showers from Heaven to make it bloom and fill the house with its fra grance. God has only good for you. It is His blessed will that you should be always happy, free from care, and filled with peace. It is His plan that your home shall be an ideal home, where the wife is treated like a queen, and the husband is honored like a king. The Third Person in the Home The Spirit of God is such a wonderfully blessed Per son that when He is permitted to rule and reign in the life, then the heart is tender, and the decisions that are made in the mind are fair and just, kind and equitable. He will prevent selfishness, and will hinder personal greed. He will enhance the value of your companion and will diminish the demands of your own life. He will fill your mind and heart with pleasant thoughts, with kindness and care for the one to whom you are joined in the bonds of sacred love. He w ill minimize the faults of your companion and will give you a quickened sense of your own. He will lead you to think and to plan a happy program for your lover so that together you may rejoice in those things which are of mutual interest and profit. God in His kindness and grace has given to. us His blessed Word. In this priceless volume God has revealed His formula for a happy home. He tells us how to live with each other and for each other. He describes the beauties of the home in which the husband thinks and plans for the happiness of his bride and the wife seeks to serve in godly deference the man of her choice. She learns in the Scripture how to choose the right kind of companion and then to love the man of her choice. The Scripture never promotes discord in the home nor does it encourage any antagonism whatever between those hearts that have been joined in matrimony. God’s words are like God Himself. His counsel is for peace and not for strife. That which He prescribes for domestic felicity always results in a home of peace and contentment when it is followed. Do let God’s blessed Word have a great place in the program o f your home. Read it together. Follow it fully. Pray together over its precepts. Come together, in prayer to the living God over every problem and seek His counsel. Let the living God be your God. Let His Saviour be your Saviour. Let His Word be your guide. Thus you will defeat Satan in any effort he may make to destroy the sweetness which is your rightful heritage in the home you have established.
A chapter from the book by Dr. Wilson, “Happiness tn the Home J” which may be secured from The Biota Book Room, 536 So. Hope St., Los Angeles i3, California, for forty cents, tax and postage included. This booklet is excellent as a gift to the newly married as it contains a full-page marriage certificate . „
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