The Culture Of The Home
The true culture of the home is that of the spirit. The best way of keeping the father, the wife, the boys and the girls from evil is to make the home attractive and sufficient in itself. A man’s home ought to be enough for him so that if everything else in the world were taken away he might console himself with its abiding treasures.
—C. S. Macfarland.
I Will Build Me A Nest On The Greatness Of God
Oh, what is abroad in the marsh and the terminal sea?
Somehow my soul seems suddenly free
From the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin,
By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing withholding and free
Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!
Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun,
Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won
God out of knowledge, and good out of infinite pain,
And sight out of blindness, and purity out of stain.
As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod,
Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God:
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies
In the freedom that fills all the space ‘twixt the marsh and the skies:
By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends into the sod
I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God.
—Sidney Lanier.
Reverence of God is the basis of morality.
—The Talmud.
Alternate Reading: Acts 8:14-25.