Foreword
The Adventist home is a home where Seventh-day Adventist stan-
dards and practices are lived and taught, a place to which Seventh-day
Adventist fathers and mothers are commissioned by Christ to go and
make Christians of the members of their own households. And in order
to perform that task well, Seventh-day Adventist parents are looking
for all the help they can possibly find.
Ellen G. White has written much and very valuable counsel for
parents. She has touched upon every phase of the home, and offers
specific instruction on many of the problems which give so much con-
cern to thoughtful and often anxious parents today. Some years before
her death, she indicated her desire to get out “a book for Christian
parents” that would define “the mother’s duty and influence over her
children.” In the present work an endeavor has been made to fulfill this
expectation.
This book, The Adventist Home, is at once a sort of handbook or
manual for busy parents, and a pattern or ideal of what the home can
and should become. Here are the answers to your many questions, the
words of wisdom from the heavenly Father.
In compiling this work, excerpts have been drawn from the Ellen
G. White writings penned through seven decades, but especially from
the thousands of E. G. White articles which were prepared for the
journals of the denomination. The current published works, special
testimonies issued in pamphlet form, and the E. G. White manuscript
files have also enriched the Volume. Appropriate source credits are
given in connection with each chapter. As the excerpts drawn from
different sources written at different times are linked together in
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their logical sequence, there may be occasionally a slight unavoidable
break in thought or manner of address, for the compilers are limited in
their work to selecting and arranging the subject matter and supplying
the headings.
This document has been prepared in the office of the Ellen G.
White Publications. The work has been done in harmony with Mrs.
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