Making the Home Beautiful

Even on the humblest family rests the obligation of making the home attractive, for old and young alike.

1924 The Lutheran Witness

An excerpt from The Lutheran Witness in 1924.

Even on the humblest family rests the obligation of making the home attractive, for old and young alike.

There should be a cluster of Christian friends. How beautiful are the home pictures of Luther’s family, with friends gathered to spend a pleasant social hour! Let the children and young people have similar friends. The wrong kind of friends are an open danger; often enough it has proved deadly. Make the home so attractive that it will draw, like a magnet, into its safe circle, instead of letting the little flock scatter, to seek pleasure perhaps in questionable company, or in questionable places.

Games and music of the right type are a great help. Every Christian home should be stacked with attractive Christian books and papers. What a wealth of pure amusement may thus be found! Save on others things, for in-stance, display; lavish here.

Of the beautiful, interesting, helpful things, not religious in themselves, take the best to make pleasant the home. These, too, are ours, like the flowers in the garden, the pets we love, the little hobbies of pleasant occupation, the useful arts combining diversion with other benefits.

— From “The Active Church Member.”