Sweep Before Your Own Door

From Matthew Henry’s Family Religion:

When the wall was to be built about Jerusalem, it was presently done by this expedient, every one undertook to repair over against his own house (see Neh. 3:10 ff). And if ever the decayed walls of the gospel Jerusalem be built up, it must be by the same method. Every one must sweet before his own door, and then the street will be clean. If there were a church in every house, there would be such a church in our land as would make it a praise throughout the whole earth. We cannot better serve our country than by keeping up religion in our families.