This is the true nature of home. It is the place of peace; the shelter not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the unknown, unloved or hostile society of the outer world is allowed by either husband or wife to cross the threshold, it ceases to be home; it is then only a part of that outer world which you have roofed over and lighted fire in. But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple of the hearth watched over by household gods—so far as it is this, and roof and fire are types only of a nobler shade and light—so far it vindicates the name and fulfils the praise of home.—
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This is the true nature of home. It is the place of peace; the shelter not...
From the June 1925 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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