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Show Bible Comment: We Inherit Home Ideal From Jews of Old I TN the heritage of Christianity from. Judaism, the world owes the Jews a big debt, especially in their concept of the sanctity of home and family life. A great factor in the strength of the Jews historically, in spite of sufferings, persecutions and tragedies, has been this attitude toward home and family life, and this goes far back into Jewish history and religion. Christian teaching enforced all that Jesus and the disciples whom He gathered around Him had known in all that Jewish heritage that the Master said He had not come to destroy but to fulfill. Love in all the relationships of life is the supreme demand of Christ. Love in home and family fam-ily life in the Christian conception concep-tion is the prime basis of happy and responsible living. All this is so obvious and elemental ele-mental that to state it seems commonplace. But it is the commonplace com-monplace things of life that are the most important, and too often neglected. Is there any area of life today in which the basic and commonplace things of Christian teaching are neglected, and set at naught, more than in this area of marriage, home and family? fam-ily? Surely this is- a great problem facing Christians and the Christian Chris-tian Church, as well as all who are concerned about the social welfare. There, would be more hope among nations and peoples, if there were more peace in homes, families, and in all .the daily relationships re-lationships of ordinary life. |
