From the “Home Ethics” Relief Society lesson on civic pride taught the third week of February, 1914 –

There should be honesty of motive in the union of two lives, the husband and wife filled with a genuine respect and love for each other, while they study each other’s characteristics and temperament; and above all, they should possess the same religious faith. These two should live in a home built, according to their means, in a simple, honest way, everything corresponding along the lines of beauty, economy and utility throughout, the main and prime object being to better and ennoble their own lives and the lives of their children, if they are blessed with them, and to set a worthy example in the city, town or village where they reside. …

Our homes are the primary, as well as the finishing and the graduating school for each of us. Here we lay permanently the foundation for every useful enterprise, every honorable life work; here we take on the indelible stamp of reliability, of integrity, of honest doing and dealing with our own household and our fellow-men.

Our families represent the community, the state and the nation. The intellectual, moral, physical, political, social and religious impress of the home life radiates out into the ward, the city and the nation. Hence, the necessity from every point of view for men and women in every avenue of life to be honest, live honestly and act honestly every day of their lives.