Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-05-17
THE PEOPLES RELIGION.
LITTLE CHILDREN AND SPIRITUAL MOTHERS;
OR, THE FINAL OUTCOME OF woMAN's RIGHTS.

OR, THE FINAL OUTCOMEO OF WOMAN > RlGHIS.
"Little children, love one another"
What is the first need of little children in
order to insure their love one to another? Their
first need is that they be asked of the Lord, as
was Samuel, and coming to their mothers arms,
because those mothers, instead of having con-
suited together how they might compass the
murder of unborn innocents, have, like Mary
and Elizabeth, rejoiced together in view of
their coming motherhood, and thus the souls OF
the little ones have been attuned to harmony
before birth. After birth, the need of the little
ones is that they should be brooded over by the
mother-love, so that if childish disputes arise
over their playthings, she can say to them,
Hush, little ones; the playthings about which
you are disputing are not worth one angry
thought.
If those who, in physical and intellectual de-
velopment, are but little ones, have need of the
mother-love to brood over them, have not those
who, in moral and spiritual development, are
but little ones, the same need? Do they not
just as much need a Heavenly Mother as a
Heavenly Father? and may it not be that the
reason why the Protestant family of little ones
have disputed so bitterly about creeds, and doc
trines, and ordinances-questions which will
yet be regarded as the merest playthings OF the
worlds spiritual childhood-is because they
have had no spiritual mother to say to them,
Hush, little ones; the creeds about which you
are disputing are not worth one angry thoughtf
The ancient religions recognized the female
element in the Deity, and, through that, the
Divine Motherhood; and what is the mother
hood of Mary in the Catholic church but the
brought down to the comprehension of those
who in spiritual development, are little ones?
If the fathers of the Protestant church ever
wonder why it is that they have not succeeded
in their attempt to destroy the ''nian of SIM"
as they please to call the Pope, perhaps they
can find one reason in the fact that the 'man of
SIM has had the wisdom to provide Heavenly
Mother for his little ones, and has thus "kept
his family together" while the "fathers" of
the Protestant church, in trying to "bring up"
a family of little ones without Heavenly
Mother have overlooked the deepest needs and
the holiest instincts of the child soul. The
Protestant "fathers" have provided for their
little ones Heavenly Brother-Christ-and a
Heavenly Father-God-bu every mother
knows that it is not the brother-love nor the
father-love, but the mother-love, that reaches
down to and fills and satisfies the soul; hence,
if little one is so unfortunate as to lose the
mother, it needs some one to stand in her place,
not only to minister to its physical needs, but
also to develop the flial love of the child soul.
Is it not well, therefore, that the little one
should be shown the mothers picture (Which
is but the symbol of the mother), and taught
to call it Mamma? Now, suppose some
well-meaning busy-body should say to the little
one, "Darling, that is not your mamma; it is
only picture. You haven't any mamma, for
she is dead" Would it not have been better
if the little one had been left to find out for
itself between the symbol and the mother?
Then it might not have known the difference
until it could also understand that death does
not mean that it has no mamma, but only that
mamma has "gone before"
If those who, physically, are but little ones
have need Of mother, or, in her place, SYM