ABSTRACT
James Russell Miller was a popular Christian author, editorial superintendent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, and pastor of several churches in Pennsylvania and Illinois. A Christian home that had chaste and tasteful interior decorations both helped children's religious development and also signified the family's ethical position. The educating effect of home-decoration has not received that attention which it deserves, nor has its moral value come into general and thoughtful consideration. The moral effect of interior home-decoration is still greater. Lovely pictures in a home have a wondrous and subtle power in the education and refining of child life. The display of undraped figures on canvas must necessarily exert a harmful influence, especially upon the minds of the young. A godly man said that when quite young an evil picture was shown to him on the street.
