This is a reading of Part 1 of “Home: The Savior of Civilization” by J. E. McCulloch. It explains what a home council is, why work done in the home is of paramount importance, and what to expect from the episodes that follow.
While following episodes of this podcast will only be a few minutes each, this one is an hour and twenty minutes.
This shold give you a flavor of what to expect. Here are a few quotes from the text:
“We moderns are incurably conceited over our inventions and machines. We pride ourselves on being able to talk to a friend a thousand miles away and forget that a far more important thing is the thought we express when we do talk. We can fly a hundred miles an hour and how proud we are when we alight I But we forget that almost any good Greek twenty-three centuries ago could travel in an ox-cart and teach more truth than we can possibly think of and teach it faster. It is not how fast we can travel nor how far we can convey our words that counts, but how well we can think and how sincerely we feel and how genuine is our message when we arrive.”
“There never was, and there never can be, a club, or society, or party, or anything else that the sun shines on, important enough, or attractive enough, to justify members of the family in habitually neglecting this school of character and fellowship. If one’s soul is worth more than a little gold or pleasure, he should do this thing seriously and in dead earnest.”
“When one puts business or pleasure above his home, he that moment starts on the down grade to soul ruin. The loss of a fortune is nothing compared with the loss of home. When the club becomes more attractive to any man than his home, it is time for him to confess in bitter shame that he has failed to measure up to the supreme opportunity of his life and has flunked in the final test of true manhood. No other success can compensate for failure in the home. This is the one thing of limitless potentialities on earth. The poorest shack of a home in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than the richest bank on earth. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.”
“Pure hearts in a pure home are always in whispering distance of Heaven.”