The atmosphere of a home expresses a clearly defined reality.
The atmosphere is the spirit of the house, emanating from the
deep well of the subconscious mind of the homekeeper. God has
created no more gracious figure in His great world than that of
the wife and mother, who gives to the very place of her abode
her own quiet, buoyant, soothing spirit. What she is in the
unsounded deeps of her being will appear in time in the house
where she dwells and in the faces of the little children that
look up to her. On the other hand, the home of the card-club
woman and the home of the gad-about! Who does not know them and
shudder at the thought? Their atmosphere is that of restlessness
and spiritual poverty. Wo betide her children and her husband;
for she can not give them, after their day of temptations and
vexation, that by which they are renewed, the spirit of peace
and quiet confidence in good.--ROBERT MACDONALD.
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