Home making is the one grand business of all well meaning people. How the merchant is in the midst of his goods and his ledgers all the best years of his life, just to make a home for himself and those he loves. In doing this well, he makes himself a noble character, his country a noble citizen, the world a noble man. So of the farmer, the mechanic, the banker, the railroad man, as well as all the rest. Home-making is a wonderfully productive business. It makes men, communities, cities, towns, states, nations,--makes property, characters, institutions, business, travel, art, science, mechanism, literature, education, churches, and the hum and stir of enterprise in everything. This thing of toiling for the home, is the multiplier of him who toils, making him many times larger than he otherwise would be. How it sharpens his wits, toughens he muscles, magnifies his brain, augments the forces of his character, and quickens and enlarges all the best of him. Home is indeed the great man-making institution in the sense of developing manly feelings, and educating and enforcing manly qualities. Many and many a man, genuine and strong is made wholly by the work, and care, and love which home enforces as a necessity. The very friction, worry and discontent of home, often compel the development of patience under difficulties, self-control, and perseverance which would not otherwise be secured. It so happens that man is not a plant that grows and fruits well in a hot-bed. Frosts and storms, heat and cold, wet and drought, somehow, put qualities into him which he gets only in hard experiences. This home-making and home keeping necessity, which seems to be upon us all, keeping us hard at work, and making us glory in the work God has given us.