The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-17

The Rev. Charles Curtis McIntire,
pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian
church, preached an able sermon Sun
day morning Oh "Christian Mother
hood. y Appropriate music was fur
nishcd for the services, which were well
attended, IN fact, despite the incle.
ment weather, au unusually large con
grcgatIOn greeted the Rev. Mr.. Mcln-
tire. In part, he said:
There arc three words in the English
language OF peculiar sweetness and pow
er. They arc distinctly the gifts of Chris
beauty In ratio TO the reality OF your
personal religion. The second OF these
three is the word home-the place where
are the rarest. graces, frcest companion
snip. truest love; the third word is
heaven-the Christians eternal rest. the
Immortality of which alike is the hope
But the first word is tho essential in the
second and a valuable asset of the third.
II is mother. For what Is home without
iC II is where mother is.
All mat is tender, strong and sublime
IN m99therhood has been put into il by the
Jesus Christ Think of the position of
a mother in un-Christian lands The
religions of the east all agree in denying
her soul. Her only god is her husband
before whom, In Syria, she must cover
as he shricks. "A woman is but a mans
shoe Helpless. hopeless, prayerless.
she looks UP into the Syrian sky and
thinks the stars are souls and the milky
way the paradise: but for the thrstinG
soul there Is no water Of life. In China.
heather cruelty ruthlessly tears asunder
love in mothers heart as her babe is
sacrificed in the revolving orgies to the
gods. Retrothed in infancy. her whole
life. in India, is a burden and curse,
where IMPRESSED q
consents 10 be burned on the funeral
pyre with her husband. o. the bitter.
bitter lot OF heather motherhood,
Wherever Christianity has been pro-
claimed. there the first emotions. the
simple things in life have been purified
and restored to their natural and God
ship.
The Bible account of the creation OF
man and woman and the happy union OF
one man with one woman: the story OF
Rachael and her motherly affection for
Joseph; the holy passion of Hannah as
she prays for son, and her pure devo-
TO the service of the Lord: the recogni-
ton of the providence of God in the
mysteries OF motherhood by Elizabeth.
and the resignation. simplicity, humility
Lord-all these Bible characters have
been windows in heaven through which
have strcamed the light that is shining
on those who sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death. clarifying tho. atmos..
pherc until now we see white halos OF
honor, virtue and love enclrcling the glory
of Christian motherhood.
Christian motherhood is woman'S en-
tire and hoiest being, for she is IN part
nership with God iashioning an immor-
tai soul. Her task is hard. but her reward
is great No human jov is equal 10 hers
as the little. dinpled hand catches hers
for the first time and the two little eyes
look their brightness, innocency and
hope into her face, which is softeued with
ye, now broken with smiles
Sorrow and toll we brought to her The
claims on her intellect and heart and
patience our small feet bore, she met
with strength and wisdom and self-coD-
troll About our baby selves, the white
ness OF her soul cast a moral air OF
noolcncss and purity as she brcathed out
her hopes and ideals and prayers over
us, which even today in a large meas
urc is shaping our character and deter
mining our destinies, Counting the joys
of society and the liberties OF the child
less less than her duty gladly did she
hide herself behind the portals OF the
threshold in silence and toll In inan-