The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-13
! MOTHERS DAY SERMON
DR.. j. S. Hoagland Delivered an In
teresting Sermon on the Day
Set Apart for Mothers.

church Sunday was an exception
ally Interesting exercise and it Was
witnessed by a Very large audience.
The Moman'S Relief Corps attended
the service in a body. The church
was decorated appropriately, IL
throughout the audience the White
flower was prominent. The music
OF the morning was tine and aided
in the tribute that VAS paid TO the
mothers. DR.. Hoagland delivered
and Interesting sermon, d portion
OF which is given below. The pastor
illustrated the many points OF his ser
mons with incidents from life:
John 1925. Now there stood by
the Cross OF Jesus his Mother"
The scene which these words are
in part a description suggests, tAe
secret OF the mothers power ana
glory. 1t is always associated With
sacrifice. The Gross is always near.
Sacrifice is ever the price of true
greatness. All that II has will he
give for his life. When one gives his
life he gets the greatest. The Lille Is
our chance OF finding hat out, and
women have discovered it more fully
than men. We may FEED our fanish-
ed brother by the way and freshcn
him With a cup OF cold water, We
may clothe and comfort him in sick
ness and sorrow and visit hin in
prison; all this is beautiful in the
Masters eyes, but the measure of our
power TO be all we should be, is lite
itself. This is a universal law. Some
II has said that the angels ot
martyrdom and victory are brothers.
Freedoms flag is red with the BLOOD
OF fathers, sons and brothers and
With the equal sacrifice mothers,
daughters and sisters. There is d
little valley, near my old home
among the hills, of perennial rich
ness. The crops never fail. The
deep clover, fresh and frarant, fills
the air with sweetness; but the price
of the abundant life below is the bar
renness of the mountain peaks above
and about. These literally pour
their life into the valley.
The M who paid the full penalty
of devotion to his country in the day
OF her calamity was the II who gave
himself to be worn by weary marches,
to be wasted in wretched prison pens,
to be weakened by wounds, to be rid
died by bullets, bayonet and bursting
shell. Stump speeches and paper
plans of campaign can never be sub
for the real sacrifice of ones
self.
This is what makes the word
mother a magic one. We think OF
her and memories pour in upon us.
Memories of loving service, solicit
tude and sacrifice. We think on and
our eyes get moist and Il hearts
throb fast and warm; for We hear
again her gentle football, and the door
opens quietly; she thinks we are
asleep, then we feel her warm lips
upon our forehead and hear again
the whispered prayer. God bless my
boys and keep them pure and true"
At birthdays, it was only a pair of
OF mlttens, perhaps, or pulse-warm-
ers, or big, bright wooden scarf, but
her patient fingers did it all. We did
not think much about it then, but
now we know that her life was one
long sacrifice for us. This is why
mother is one of the sacred words
of all languages, literatures, centuries
and countries. This is why that
word is written high up on h%onor's
just under the name of Jesus
The eason why woman has more
of the sacrificial spirit of the Christ
is that Christianity has done most
her. In the palmy days of imper-
ial Greece where was woman? Would
you ask Themistocles? He was too
lecherous to tell where woman's true
place was in human life. Don't ask
Pericles for he too was a stranger to
Ask Demosthenes. He says,
We have prostitutes for our pleas
ure, and wives to zeal us children
and to care for our households" Soc
rates, the noblest Grecian of them all,
asks, lis there a human being with
whom you talk less than with your
The classic religion of imper-
lal Rome had nothing to offer wo-
man. Metellus, the most admired
man of his generation, speaks of mar
as IAN oppressive burden. which
would gladly be rid Of" Sen
eca the best of his time, speaks of
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