Archa O. Dart

"The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him" (Hab. 2:20)."Parents should not only teach, but command, their children to enter the sanctuary with sobriety and reverence."—Child Guidance, P.…

HAVE you seen my daddy?" asked an earnest little four-year-old.

"I think he went to town," replied one of the two men care­lessly.

"The last time I saw him," chimed in the other, "some fel­lows were locking him up in the basement."…

WOULDN'T it be wonderful we had no financial prob­lems at all in the home or in the church? The pastor's salary would be sufficient for all his family needs, and the church treasury would always be full. To pay for the new organ or the new…

ELDER, don't you think my husband and I should sepa­rate for the sake of the children? We quarrel all the time about anything and everything. No ma ter what I do or don't do, it never pleases him; and he gets on my nerves too. We are both…

MARRIAGE is for life, for better or for worse. There is nothing temporary or seasonal in it. There is no such thing as a trial marriage or an agreement to terminate the home if the hus­band and wife grow tired of each other. Selecting a marriage…

SO THAT charming couple has asked you to officiate at their wedding. That places a sa­cred responsibility on you as a minister of the gospel to see that they have premarriage coun­sel. No minister ever thinks of baptizing a per­son without…

ONE glorious Sabbath day a preacher returned home late in the afternoon from his weekly Bible study and found his seven-year-old son sit­ting on the front steps with a most forlorn look on his face. "Well, well, Sonny," the father tried…

WHERE is Sister Greenwood?" I asked while visiting one of our smaller churches one day. "She is usually very faithful in her church attendance, and I missed her this morning."

"Oh, haven't you heard?" replied the pastor soberly.…

THAT promise of a 10,000 per cent increase staggers the imagination, doesn't it? But there it is as plain as day: "If more attention were given to teaching parents how to form the habits and character of their children, a HUNDRED­FOLD…

IT IS an inspiring sight to see a church with a large number of children in it. "Less time and effort are necessary for the winning of twenty children to Christ than one adult," declares Dr. George Bailey in the Vacation Bible School…

A MINISTER'S HOME in­fluences more people than his pulpit. "Far more power­ful than any sermon that can be preached is the influence of a true home upon human hearts and lives."—The Ministry of Healing, p. 352. That is why Satan…