Her empire is small, but her power is immense. Woman, next to God, makes the living world of humanity. She makes man what he is in this world, and very frequently makes him what he shall hereafter be in the world to come. We do not infringe on the pulpit or on the press in so affirming. These are, indeed, a supply of means to compensate the want or neglect of maternal influence, enlightened by the Gospel, and properly directed by its spirit.
Maternal influence is paramount to paternal influence.
We read of an hereditary maternal influence possessed and developed by Grandmother Lois and Mother Eunice, but never of a grandfather's influence by any hero in the Christian Scriptures. Maternal love and assiduity are paramount to paternal love and assiduity. Besides, every infant looks up more to its mother for everything it wants than to its father. In this excursive view of the character of a mother, of a Christian mother, We have been only sketching out the more prominent characteristics of Mother Campbell. They have not only been written on the tablet of my memory, but incorporated with my modes of thinking and speaking.