Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-10
and putting up the wishes of tn
American mothers"
Sneaks of Y. M, C, A, Work


American mothers"
Speaks of Y. M. c. A. Work
E. H. Emett took the place of DR..
W. D; Weatherford, international Ilal
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary, who was unable
to be present. He spoke on the sub
ject, "The Young Mans Obligation to
His Mother" He opened his address
by soaking of the work of the Y. M.
c. A. among the young men.
MY memory goes back, not to an
American, but an English mother"
said Mr.. Emett. "But American or
English, it makes no difference;
mother is a mother, no matter where
she is to be found. A mother comes
fresh from the hand OF God
MANS obligation to his mother does
not cease until he meets her in glory
land. What was and is the hope and
expectation of every mother for her
son, should be his to fulfill. One of the
first things a mother wishes is that
her son may grow up to be a good
man and it should be the purpose OF
every man to fulfil that-to be a good
man. She also wishes him to be sue
cessful and the young man who obeys
his mother will be successful May
there not be something said on the
other side and that when young man
does not do right his mother may have
lost her golden opportunity when he
was a youth?
Il believe that every young man
owes it to his mother to keep in the
closest possible touch with her."
1.-THE White Carnation," the national
ode of the day, written by Mrs. Baker
p. Lee was to have been sung at the
service by Madame Genevra tombstone
Bishop, but she was unaVoidably pre-
vented from taking part. Rev. Mr.
Lee, in announcing, said he had insist
| ed "of her who pledged herself to obey.
but who never did. while L who did
not, always do and introduced Mrs
Lee, who sang the song.
| DR.. S. Hecht, rabbi of the Temple
B'nai Birth, spoke on the subject
Mothers in Israel" He said:
This day is destined to become his
torical. There is no word in any Ian
| guage sweeter than that of mother
In all history there is no one honored
as she with the crown of motherhood
This is not a new thought.
Sentiment Always Existed
"Ever since the first dawn of civili-
cation there has been feeling of rev.
erence manifested for the mother.
There has been no time in history
where this sentiment was utterly I'M
| known. We have been unmindful some
times and have taken the mother love,
! sacrifice and devotion as matter of
| course, it might seem, but here we
| are called on to see the difference be-
tween semblance and reality. With that
royal singer of Israel who said, Though
my heart is asleep yet am l awake,
we might coincide. So could we all
claim that the sentiment has existed.
In a spirit of inactivity it has laid, but
no sooner has the word been spoken
| than it takes fire with a holy flame to
spread the good day.
"My topic is Mothers in Israel but
I cannot talk on that. l fail because
of all the virtues and names. There is
no difference as to race, creed or ma
tionality-a mother is a mother for all
of that. 1 would insult the intellect of
this great audience were 1 to differen-
tiate them.
"In Biblical and post-Biblical litera-
ture the mother is assigned place
second to none. Ritually and legally
perhaps, the mother took the place
next to the father, but intellectually,
morally and spiritually, if not superior,
and, at all events, equal to the father
In the fifth commandment we find it
said Honor thy father and thy moth
err but in the nineteenth chapter of
Leviticus we find the passage Let
every man fear his mother and his
father and keep my Sabbath When we
study holy writ whenever the tenderest
smile is chosen it is that of the
mother.
"When these sentiments are backed
by deeds, when the profession has been
translated into the practice, then will
Mothers day be successful A mother
is mother under all conditions,
whether it be in palace or hovel. The
pains of childbirth are not the only
pains suffered by mothers. Every day
she is beset by fear, both for the moral
and physical welfare of her child.
Every love brings its sorrow as well
as it's happiness.
81 am not a prophet; neither am the
son of a prophet; but can see the day
not far removed when the sad spectacle
of mother suffering will be greatly al
leviated."
Speaks on the Day
Mothers Day" was the subject of
John G. Mott, who said:
God bless the women who have
| turned aside our thoughts today Year
| after year we commemorate the vic
tories of our forefathers and national
| achievements that have preserved our
| civil and religious liberty On tented
| battlefields we go over and over again
| the self-sacrifice and suffering, the
martydom of our heroes. In national
| legislation we review the deeds of
heroism of our statesmen, but never has
the national heart of a country
throbbed with love and gratitude for
| the women who have made possible the
deeds of the great men of the land
Never has any country set aside day
| to honor womanhood and motherhood
] "Never have we stopped to venerate