The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-02-15
Wanted: Good Catholic Mothers.

The world has need today of Cath
! olic mothers, writes Marie Louise
Points in the New Orleans Morning
| Star, mothers who are Catholic in the
/ true sense of the word, and have the
! proper conception of their great dig
| nifty and exalted calling.
1t was st. Francis de Sales who said
! beautifully that matrimony is a Sacra-
| ment whose highest purpose is to peo-
! pie heaven with saints. We look at the
world today, the busy, rushing mael-
! strom that seethes about us, we see
! human souls created by God for the
! sole purpose of loving and serving
Him. and being co-heirs with His son
Jesus Christ. and we ask ourselves
whittier and why all this vain seeking
after wealth, this mad rush for posi-
ton and power. this bending of all
ones energies to the accumulation of
the almighty dollar and the senseless
pleasures it purchases. this lack of
Christian education and the woful con-
sequences and the ruin of immortal
souls.
The home is the foundation of the
social fa brio 1t is to the home and
the training there given to the boys
and girls, who will make the future
citizens, that we must look for the
remedies of the evils that afflict socie-
ty today. And so the great, crying
need of the world is for good, true
mothers: mothers who will not shirk
their great God-given duties and re-
sponsibilities. but realizing that they
have been co-workers with God in the
creation of immortal souls. will bring
to their life task the noblest and high
est efforts of their soul and being.
The Catholic mother! No ordinary
women is she who truly bears this
title; no vain seeker after fashionable
notoriety. on loud advocate of woman's
rights, no aggressive competitor in the
ranks and callings Of men. She is the
queen of home. She looks upon that
sa cred center as her supreme sphere,
her ideal realm, whTe love is her
throne Duty her watchword, and her
attendant ministers, Purity and Truth.
Cultured. gracious, intelligent, refined,
she is thoroughly conversant with all
the leading topics of the day, with
which she makes it her duty to be-
come acquainted. not for the mere
qualification of being styled a brilliant,
up-to-date woman, but rather that she
may be the fitting companion of her
husband. the intelligent confidant of
her children, the wise and earnest di-
rector of all their ideals and aspira
tions. At her side men grow nobler
girls truer, children happier
THE weak and the gentle, the ribald
and rude,
She takes as she finds them and does
them all good
None kneel at her feet as adorers in
thrall
They kneel more to God than they
used-that is all"
Thus illustrating in her life the
highest and truest principles and pre-
cepts of faith, her home is a center of
Christian charity and grace, to which
even in the most absorbing pursuits
her husband and children turn with a
holy homage and reverence, and the
thought of that wife-trat mother and
her lessons of faith and God keep her
bows and girls pure and unscathed,
even amid the greatest perils and dam
gers of after life.
The Catholic mother! 1 have in
mind one. over whose grave the grass
is now growing mother who moved
through life bearing the imprint of
the Madonna on her face, a mother
whose well-ordered household was a
haven of peace and rest TO husband