Gold Nugget 165 - Home Joys

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      Here and throughout the Bible the sanctity of the home is insisted on as something to be guarded inviolably.  It is evident that this beautiful institution is in harmony with our nature.  To live according to nature is not to indulge ill-regulated passions, to follow chance impulses, to subordinate reason and conscience to instinct and appetite.  It is to live so as to secure the harmonious working of our whole nature and of the general body of mankind.  Thus regarded, family life is natural; it falls in best with the requirements of the race, it ministers best to its advancement.

      Polygamy is always degrading.  As men rise in the moral scale they cast it off.  The home is the foundation of the state.  Where home life is most corrupt social and political institutions are in greatest danger. … May no corrupt casuistry ever dare to lay its foul finger on these holy shrines!  The worst fruits of atheism and of the confessional are seen in specious pretexts for committing that horrible sacrilege. …

      They who break through the restraints of home life in the feverish thirst for illicit delights little know what joys they are losing.  The poison-fruits of a pandemonium let a blight fall on the sweet, fresh beauty of what might have been a very garden of Eden.  For the restraints which look to libertines so irksome are just the very conditions of the most lasting, most satisfying, most wholesome of human joys. 

      The strong love of husband and wife, the parents’ pleasure in their children, the innumerable little interest of the home circle, and all that is typified by the “fireside,” are delights unknown to men who profess to make the pursuit of pleasure their aim in life.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Proverbs p. 115, Proverbs 5:15, (W. F. Adeney)

 

Gold Nugget 165

Home Joys

 

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