The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-01-05
MOTHERS or PRESIDENTS.
Address Of Chief Justice Charles B. Lore
at a Watch Meeting, In Grace
M, g. Church.

holiest of all human ties; growing in
strength and In intensity, until mother
hood was glorhed In the incarnation and
birth of the Son Of God; who became
through human motherhood Of our flesh,
our Elder brother our God man. Through
that motherhood he bsidged the chasm
that sin had ront between the Almighty
and fallen man, and opened up to us all
the way of everlasting life. Coldridge says
"A mother Is another STILL
The holiest thing alive"
Motherhood Is but the continued ex.
preston through human forms Of the
creative power Of the Almighty; and the
continuation Of that great creative work
which began in tho fat "Let there be light
and there was light" when in the morn
ing of creation the darkness that had
brooded over the face of the waters passed
away. Motherhood bears the signet and
the stamp of Godhood, and the mystery of
our birth can be solved only in the light
Of infinite knowledge.
There is nothing In life 50 touching and
SO tender as the ever now relation of
mother and her Dabo. When the infant
first nestlos in its mothers arms. and she
clasps to her bosom the new life, which
came out OF her travail and almost mortal
agony to stat on the race for eternity
with her. there spring up in her life foun-
suias VI IVY VI NhlCl hub ndtt uO
thought The little wondering, whose
eyes look deep down into her soul, reads
that mother wondrously well; and that,
too, ofGentilnes before the mother catches
the dawn of Intelligence in her child. That
new life becomes interviewed and inter-
woven with herl life for all time Myriad
heart strings fasten about her being, SO
whatever the child may become, wherever
IT may go, in her life, in her speech and
In, ,,,;l l.. i.
In that new life her fearful respon sibilitv
has commenced. Every day and every
hour the child will be drinking in of the
mothers life and character, and it will
become largely the renactiun of that
mothers innost self. Well for that mother
and better still for that child, II the
mother be Informed with tho highest and
hottest conceptions of true motherhood.
That life thencaforth and forever more
is to be n part of her life The mother
boy will be the mothers boy; whether he
grovel in the mud, or climb the highest al
tiiudes OF human achievement. The heart
broken mother will follow her maynard
boy into tho prison cell, into exile even
| into the jaws OF death. You have doubt.
less heard that in delaware and elsewhere.
| wives sometimes ask for and receive di--
Vorce from the marriage ties, and let their
worthless husbands go. Not so, the mother
| 1t is not noted in the history OF our State
that mother ever asked to be divorced
| from her son Ever and always, in life
and in death, he is her boy.
Standing reverently in the presence of
| that motherhood tonight, lot us turn our
| thoughts to some of the best phases oftypi.
| cal motherhood culloi from the pages of
| history.
AMERICAN MOTHERHOOD
Our special theme toni lights, "a mericuu
! Motherhood from Notable Types" Before
! passing to this Thought, | want 20 lay up
on the altar of true moi he.hood, Attribute in
honor OF Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
! and Ireland and Empress OF India, who
| for sixty years has ruled with sigma! abili.
; ty over ha most mhgniticenJ empire tho
world has ever seen. but who. &c hiyhe
honor stands in this, that her grea ness IL
! Queen, is dwarfcl by sterling loyalty to al
the duties of highest MOI herhood She
! stands out in the pages of history as the
most notable and noble Of royal mothers
! Looking up through that motherhood and
! true womanhood in all tho relations of life
We need not wonder, that every English,
| mans heart quickens with Venerntiun-
and his soul is stirred with enthusiasm,
| under the strains of God Save the Queen
| wherever IL may be hoard She has don @
more to pre- serve the peace of Europe, and
| for the advancement Of mankind than all
ri r. WHIT prruui VIZ ~e ri tsnG1tia alone, that
England did not recognize the Southern
ConFederacy and precipitatl war with us
IN that hour OF our trial.
A wise man once said, "IIct me bnt
| write the songs OF Il nation, and caro- not
who makes the laws" So it maybe said, IL
IS but know the quality Of tho morncr-
hood OF n nation, and we may accurately
measure its greatness The poet writes:
| "Ali truo trophies of tho ages
! 'Ate from mOthcr-lOve impearled:
| 10: tht nan that rpakI tn, cate
! Is the Land that rules the world"
In 10 form of government j. trua
motherhood so large constituent oi
! growth and safety us ina republic where
intelligence and virtue Are tho true cornel
stones OF the governmental structure
EuEcu" Lawrence says, The educated, in
tcliigent woman is often the Saviour OF
The STATE. In republic she is Of all III ST
useful. Shc forms the citIzens ana guide,
the family
NOTABLE WOMEN.
I is fitting this New Year, Eve, LOOKING
back upon our past rs n people. nnu out
upon our fGiurt, which is to DO somewhat
the irint OF That past, that we shuuld con
slider The motherhood Of America that ha
brought lis thus far in safety and sec what
OF promise We may sa her for tho future
from that past.
1t would be impossible to analyz, Amer.
irnn motherhood, in its rOlygl0t character
ANA manifold phases in the time allotted
10 thes remarks ! shall single out as
tyW Il u'o then 'tnb women, who have
bean mn|ter-huldars in this great nation
whose Ives compass our national life and
mark four Of our most typical cpochs.
These four will be the mothers of Wash.
intton, Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley.
Its conceded TINT the man who 0cCu-
pies the pc .itiOn 1T President Of the United
States. is he most exalted of all the rulers
If earth. He is the chosen reprcsuntative
Of 'oYnnty millions of free people. He
speaks, hcts Tor aud represents them OF
| tn 'ir own free choice No such condition
exists among #ny othcF people.
The women of whom we arc to speak to.
night ware the mothers Of four of our
Presidents; let rs see how much the world
owes to them.
MARY BALL WASHINGTON.
On the twenty.hfth day of August 1850,
died at her home near Frederick,bur
Virginia. Mary Ball Washington, the wild,
uw Of Augustine Washington, and the
mother of George Washington, ia the
eiShty-third year Of hcrago, and tho forty
sixth year of her widowhood. During
tho latter portion Of her life, when the
! pit less disease OF cancer, from which sho
| had suffered for years, was making rapid
| Roadway, it was her habit to repair daily
to secluded spot near her dwelling and
there commune with her Maker"
Near that spot she was buried; her
| grave was unmarked oven by head stone
| until 1888, when President jackson in the
| presence o. an linmenes concourse Of PEG.
| pie, laid the corner stone of pyramilal
| monument forty-ilve feet high, crowned
with colossal bust of Washing on, sur
| mounted by an American eagle holding a
| civic crown above the hero'5 head. The
simple but eloquent inscription on that
shattis, Mary the Mother Of Washing.
| ton"
Standing before that monument we may
| httiugly adopt tho language of Mrs, Sig
! Quincy written or the OCCASION:
| But now we come
To do thee homage, mother of our Chief
cit homage, such us honornlh him who
"Of the might that clothed,
THE Pater Patria' of the deeds that won
"A nations liberty and earth's applause.
Making Mount Vernon's tomb a Mecca
haunt
For patriot and for sage, while time
"What part was thine, what thanks to
"Who midst his elements of being
wrought
with no uncertain aim, nursing tho
germs
"Of GCdlike virtue, in his infant mind,
We know not Heaven can tell.
Rise noble pilo,
and say to mothers what holy charge
SIS theirs With what kiDgly power their
love
Might rule the fountains Of the new born
mind"