Second, make home a heaven. These faithful wives, these faithful daughters, assume their portion of the burden and carry it on. They make their homes a heaven. Too frequently, women underestimate their influence for good. 11 In such a house will be found happy, smiling children who have been taught, by precept and example, the truth.
Years pass, and children become more independent.
They move away from mother's protective care, but they are ever influenced by mother's teachings, mother's example, and mother's love. Some appear by their actions to have forgotten this influence. However far from the hearth of home the wanderer travels, the word mother mentally and emotionally brings him or her homeward once again. And mother, as always, stands with welcoming arms. They cannot be proxy for parents. . . .