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Revivals Must First Come
To Our Homes

The condition of American home life today is appalling. Divorce, immorality, and domestic dissension threaten our homes as they never have been threatened before in our nation/s history.
In this day and age, when the foundation of our civilization is being attacked by the termites of paganism, dissoluteness, glamorized infidelity and glorified dissipation, Hollywood glitter and sophisticated drunkenness, sneers at decency, and ridicule of virtue, there is only one agency capable of warding off destruction--Christian character, bred, nurtured, and matured in a Christian home.
There must be eternal vigilance on the part of father and mother if they would stand together as the duly appointed watchmen on the battlements of their household. Standing together in unity, God will enable them to deep clean and whoesome the home atmosphere and thus repel the deadly approach of every evil influence. This is a part of passing on a full heritage to their children.
Give them good clothes, wholesome food, educational advantages, and the pleasant treats that children delight to have in every normal home. But above all things give them God in all the sweet consistent reality of a truly consecrated life lived before them day by day. They need to hear father's voice rising in prayer every day in the home---and mother's voice as well. Encourage them to take their place in daily family worship, expressing their heart's desire in their simple language and manner. They need to see God's precious Word opened before their eyes and read every day.
If your home life is too busy to read the Word of God and have prayer, then, indeed, it is busier than God intended it to be. "O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!" (Deut. 5:29).
Many parents have thoughtlessly shirked their part in the spiritual development of their family, and no Sunday school can make up for this lack.
We are pleading for revival--and, please God, let it come first to our homes, where family altars have been neglected, where confidence between mothers and daughters is waning, where fathers and sons fail to meet life's problems together, where plain, everyday holiness is lacking. No one can do more to help bring revival than parents themselves, awake to all the glorious possibilities of their calling.

ALICE R. FLOWER
HERALD OF HIS COMINIG
via EMMANUEL HERALD
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His word.