Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-05-11

There is one incident in the life of Jesus that puts him in closest kin to me. It is that when dying on the cross His thought was of His mother; and that with tenderness and love He made arrangements for her welfare and com fort.
 The years, the toiL the responsi- bility, the honors, the achievements, cannot dim or repress the vision aud the thought of mother from ouy hearts. We always think of mother as ws did when we were boys and giris. We are still mothers s laddie--lassie. "Men are only boys grown tall,'' when 1t comes to thoughts of mother, at any rate. The sams is true of mothers thought of us. When Garfield was assassinated his mother cried out--"O how could they shoot my baby,' and when he lay dying at Elberon, he said, 1T must write to mother.'' and the last act of his waning strength was to pen, a latter to his mother.
 How much it means In our lives that we can always go back and be boys and girls at our mother's knee. How 1t sweetens life!
 How 1t puts purpose into life!
 How it soothes the sorr0w-heals the sores, and makes us forget the scars!
 How 1t holds us and keeps us strong for the right, clears away our doubts, af.d gives us strength and courage to meet life's battles.
 John Randolph of Virginia once said: "I should havs been French atheist if it had not been for one recollection and that was that my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers and cause me on my knses to say: "our Father who art in Heaven-''
 Hundreds and thousands of boys have been kept back from ruin by the hal lowed influence which fond and God ly mother had thrown around them in their early childhood. We should never cease to appreciate the value of the mothers influence, teaching ard exam pie. There is no better safeguard for US than to keep ever fresh and green in our memories the life, the faith and the nope of our mothers. We ought to be able always to see those deep, tender eyes looking down upon us when we are tempted to do wrong. In fact, we never can get away from those eyes. They follow US wherever we go. Whatever we do, We are conscious of their yearning look.
 John B. Cough testified that the thought of his mother, after he had been indnlging in wild debauch, showed him his weakness, his folly and his sin and gave him the nerve and the determination, with Gods help, to break away rom the drink habit and assert his manhood.
 Our mothers children rise up and call her blessed when they walk as though in her constant companionship.
 Footsteps beside me tread the sod As in the twilights gone, they trod And I unlearn my doubts, thank God. !"
 Men, we should never do in the ab- sence of mother what we would not do in her presence.
 Would you ever be startled and shamefaced and confused if your moth CT should suddenly appear?
 Certainly the command to honor our mother means that we shall do the things in which she will get honor, and, the things for which she will honor us.
 In your treatment of women, always remember that your mother was a wo- man. Women, remember that which was most beautiful in your mothers womanhood, that it will also be more beautiful in yours. Live out your esti- mats of your mothers character. Hon or your mother by reproducing her high, reserved, sacred womanhood.
 We rise up and bless our mothers by satisfying the anxiety and yearning of the mother heart; by frequent let ters, and by realizing in ourselves their expectations for our honor, our achieve ments and our righteousness.
 Blessed are they who have their mothers still with them here in this