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MH 370.1
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Furnish your home with things plain and simple, things that will bear handling, that can be easily kept clean, and that can be replaced without great expense. By exercising taste, you can make a very simple home attractive and inviting, if love and contentment are there.
Furnish homes simply and durably with taste, love, and contentment. The text offers practical advice on household management and interior choices, grounded in personal taste and emotional well-being.
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C21180 · Furnishing a home with simple, easily cleaned items that are inexpensive to replace promotes practical household maintenance.
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MH 370.2
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God loves the beautiful. He has clothed the earth and the heavens with beauty, and with a Father's joy He watches the delight of His children in the things that He has made. He desires us to surround our homes with the beauty of natural things.
God delights in beauty and desires homes to be surrounded by natural things. The paragraph expresses theological perspectives on divine appreciation of beauty and spiritual motivations for surrounding oneself with nature.
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MH 370.3
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Nearly all dwellers in the country, however poor, could have about their homes a bit of grassy lawn, a few shade trees, flowering shrubbery, or fragrant blossoms. And far more than any artificial adorning will they minister to the happiness of the household. They will bring into the home life a softening, refining influence, strengthening the love of nature, and drawing the members of the household nearer to one another and nearer to God.
Surrounding homes with natural elements like lawns, trees, and flowers fosters happiness, refinement, social closeness, and spiritual connection. It combines spiritual encouragement about drawing closer to God with empirical-like claims regarding the psychological and social benefits of natural surroundings.
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C21200 · Surrounding homes with natural features such as grass, trees, and flowers increases household happiness more than artificial adornments.
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C21201 · Natural surroundings around the home bring a softening and refining influence that strengthens interpersonal bonds among household members.
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