Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20

the best time she ever had. Mother
was left a widow with three little chill
dren when i was a baby. My father
went to the war four months before 1
was born and he never came back,
and mother was left a widow with
three children when she was only
twenty years old. She knows what
hard knocks are. III mother dies first.
l know she will sit at the window
and smile down upon me and cheer me
in my toll for God until my work out
in this cold world is done and Ill 20
home
Power Of Mothers Song.
There is power in mothers song,
too. It's the best music the world
ever heard. The best music in the
world is tho music that mother makes.
There Is no brass band or pipe organ
that can hold a candle to mothers
song. Calve, Melba. Nordica, E.ames.
Schuman-Heink, they are cheap skates
compared to mother. They can't sing
at all. They don't know the rudi-
ments of the kind of music mothe,
sings. The kind she sings gets tangled
up in your heart strings There would
w ~ ft'oitiilttIl III ttlS music OF
heaven to me If there were no mothers
there to sing. The song of an angel
or seraph would not have much
charm for me. What would YOU care
for an angels song If there Is no
mothers song? The song of a mother
is sweeter than that ever sung by min
stre!s or any poet ever wrote. Talk
about sonnets. You ought to hear the
mother sing when her babe is on her
breast, when her heart Is filed with
emotion. Her voice may not please an
artist, but it will please him IL he
mas q heart in him. The songs that
have moved the world are not tho
songs written by great masters There
Is nothing in art that can put into
melody the happiness which associa-
lions and memories bring. There Is
nothing in the world that can put into
cabin or that mother when you were
a child. and think when we go to
heaven 1t will be found that some of
the best songs we will sing there will
be those we learned at mothers knee.
There is power in a mothers song.
A mothers love must be like Gods
love. How God could ever love this
world, or ever tell the world that he
loved it, without 9 mothers help. has
often puzzled me. If the devils in hell
ever turned pale it was the day when
mothers love famed up for the first
time in a woman's heart. If the
devil ever got cold feet" it was that
day. in my judgment.
Must Suffer for Babe.
You know mother has to love her
babe before it is born, and, like God,
she has got to go into the shadow of the
valley of death to bring it into the
world. and she will love her child suf-
fer for 1t. and it can grow up and be-
come vile, and yet she will love 1t.
Nothing will make her hate 1t. Nothing
Will make her blame it. She always
apologies for it, no matter how vile it
may be. and I think, women, that one
of the awful things in hell will be that
there will be no mothers love there.
Nothing but black, bottomless, endless.
eternal hate in hell, no mothers love
and ] thank God for what mothers
love has done for the world and thank
God for putting it into the hearts of
mothers to love the world
Like the mother read of whose child
had wandered away She went to the
minister and. asked him to help her
find her girl. He said: Bring me all
the pictures you have OF her." and
this the mother did, and underneath
each one he wrote in red ink: Come
home" Down into the haunts of sin
and corruption he went and he put the