Milford chronicle., 1903-06-05

who were accustomed to behead OF
bury alive their fathers and mothers
as soon as they became crippled with
age? Are you heartless woman. go
/ ing TO tear your parents from your
| thoughts and affections, merely be-
cause you can get no more service out
Of them? How can you expect your
/ little children to love each other after
you are gone when you yourself have
nothing to do with the brothers and
sisters of your childhood? Is it moth
| ing to you when they are sick or in
: financial trouble? Is it nothing to you
when they are dead? Why. some
mothers who think they are good and
true mothers never pretend TO have
any affection for their parents or
brothers and sisters or for their
nephews and nieces. The inevitable
result will be that some day your own
children will cease to love each other.
All, my friends, blood ought to be
thicker than water. The ties which
bind the human heart TO the home Of
childhood ought to be as strong as
links Of steel.
Today the sacred memories Of the
past are calling many a mother to her
uobler and trucr self. A short time
after her marriage a young wife told
me Of a vision she had that was SO
vivid it was difficult to believe that it
was not real. As she lay in bed in the
early morning of the day when she
was to leave her fathers home her
thoughts were busy with her past life,
in which her mother, then six months
dead occupied a prominent place.
What, she thought. would that dear
msther say to her if she were then liv-
ing? The beloved form. the tender
tones of her voice were we'll remcm-
bered As she dwelt on the memory it
seemed to her that her mother stood
beside her. She had the same dear old
face. the same look Of love. Dressed
In pure white. she came and stood at
the foot of the bed q was not in the
least affrighted." said the young girl.
81 felt and knew that I was awake.
raised myself upon my elbow and said.
is that you. motherT Yes, daughter
the mother answered. Tt is l. l have
come back to have a few parting words
before you start ont in your new life
Then. after talking awhile, the mother
said: Daughter. be true to yourself; be
true to your new home; but, daughter,
also be true to your old home Never
forget or neglect your old father. He
Is alone now. Never cease to love your
brothers and sister. You cannot be
true, my daughter to your new home
unless you are true to your old Then
the strange vision slowly turned and
disappeared" So today the sacred
memories Of the past plead for a noble
motherhood which will be true to the
old loves and which will therefore be
1Oubly true to the new.
The true mother should also be a true
friend to the great suffering world at
large. The woman who would try to
train her children merely within the
four walls of a home or in the family
relation to their father and grand
parents and uncles and aunts and Cous-
ins has a too circumscribcd territory.
The mother bird might just as we'll try
to teach her young how to fly without
their leaving the parental nest or the
horseman train the colt to draw a load
without his taking it from the stall or
n child to learn how to sing by merely
studying a music scroll without letting
her voice run the scales. \ mother in
her children what they ought
to be has her relation with the great
world at large as we'll as with the unit
of her own home.
symDathIze with the AFFLICTED.
The true mother goes forth in life