HOUSE AND HOME

Anyone can build an altar, it requires God
to provide the flame.
Anyone can build a house; we need the Lord
for the creation of a home.
A house is an agglomeration of brick and
stones, with an assorted collection of
manufactured goods; a home is the abiding-place
of ardent affection, of fervent hope, of genial trust.

There is many a homeless man who lives in
a richly furnished house. There is many
a fifteen-pound house in a crowded street
which is an illuminated and beautiful home.

The sumptuously furnished house may only
be an exquisitely sculptured tomb;
the scantily furnished house may be
the very hearthstone of the Eternal God.
[John Henry Jowett]