---
title: 'The Secret of a Happy Home'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1896-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Family Worship'
scriptures:
- 'Ephesians 5'
- 'Colossians 3'
- 'Proverbs 31'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/terhune-1896-the-secret-of-a-happy-home
---

# The Secret of a Happy Home

A 19th-century guide arguing that home happiness rests on order, kindness, and mutual forbearance; celebrates women's role in shaping family life and offers practical domestic and spiritual counsel.

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