Rules for Domestic Happiness
- Be humble. "Pride only breeds quarrels."
- "Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking
deceit."
- Find your own happiness in trying to make others happy.
- Mind your own business. Do not be meddlesome.
- Beware of a fretful, suspicious, or censorious temper.
- "Overcome evil with good." "Bless and curse not."
- "Love one another deeply, from the heart."
- Do not magnify the trials or afflictions of life.
- Beware of
sloth. There is no greater enemy of peace and
happiness.
- Make it your business to serve God.
- Keep out of debt. "Owe no man anything." Loans breed bad
tempers
and harsh dispositions.
- Keep the ultimate purpose of life in view--to glorify God.
This will repress many
vain wishes and chasten immoderate desires.
- Let your prayers be frequent and fervent.
- Never listen to scandal nor backbiting.
- Do not
grieve or worry over
things which cannot be helped.
- Set the Lord always before you.
Seek
His glory. Do and suffer His will with readiness. Let Christ be
all and
in all. Trust in the Lord forever.
