The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-05-13
DR.. GAPERS breaches
SPECIAL SERMON TO
KINGS DAUGHTERS
MOTHERS DAY" OBSERVED SUM-
DAY At ST. PETERS EPIs-
coPAL CHURCH.
BEHOLD THY MOTHER" THE TEXT.
Beautiful and Splendid Tribute Paid
to Motherhood-As the Mother
Was So Is the Child, Says the Min
lister.


preached a special sermon to the
Kings Daughters Sunday morning at
st. Peters Episcopal church, the oc-
casion being Mothers Day" A sy-
nopsis follows:
John 1927. Behold thy Mother"
We are assembled here this morning
to pay loving tribute to motherhood
This homage is not only mothers due,
but it is also mighty stimulus to the
uplift of society. When Mothers
Day" becomes a world wide festival,
society will have moved a long way
toward regeneration, for it was in the
lowly manger at Bethlehem, at Cana
and at Cavalry, the true mother, the
good mother, is always found close to
and administering to the Christ.
Mothers Day" as an annual festi-
val, is now just at its second mile
stone. The observance of such a day
was the suggestion of Miss Anna Jar
Wis, of Philadelphia. The spontaneous
and universal nature of the response
is evidenced by the fact that last year
six millions of persons kept the feast,
while today governors of states, may
ors Of great cities, heads of organiza-
tons and fraternal orders, as well as
military commanders, have issued
proclamations officially urging the OBJ
servance of the day.
Why Such a Response.
Because Mothers Day" is the Sun
day Of every creed and class. 1t is for
the very worst man as well as for the
very best man. For the heart that
has lost its song, or to which the Ian
guage of the world is a moan, as we'll
as the heart filled with joy and hope.
The response to the suggestion of
setting apart one deay in the year as
Mothers Day. is reaching universal
because all nations races,
creeds, all social divisions, the CAPT |
talists and the laborer, king and peas |
ant, are all equally eager to join in
and swell the universal chorus prais- |
ing a noble mother, while bowling |
at her sacred shrine The
mother is the Mecca to which all
hearts lovingly and instinctively turn,
,,,h;Ia IL &c IN +bo ToDoyIa 0f q Mofhar1c |
heart we find the image she has Gre
ated for her child.
1t is because Of mother-love, mother
sacrifice, mother-achievement and
what through these virtues and graces
she has accomplished for you and for
he world at large, that you are asked
o observe the day by some act of
'our mother, some ministration for
Ter comfort, If nothing more than
,rief letter or tender word. Or, il
mother is absent, gone beyond present {
ecall, then cherish the sweet and sa- {
red memory of her, by charity or I
indness in her name, that will bring |
appiness to some one less fortunate t
han you.
The Floral Badge.
The floral badge is a white flower, .
mblematic of purity, beauty and fra
rant love. It's wide field of growth
digestive of the universal field of
harity.
The message of the day Is to cher
III mother If she is with you. Show
er the evidences Of flial gratitude, af-
ection, pride and devotion. And If
ne chair is empty, the voice stilled,
len cherish the memory Of mother in
our heart, and live, at least for to-
ay, just as you know she would have
Oh live, If she we're here.
When we speak the word Mother" Is
ith what magic wonder do visions b
Dat before us and gather on the can al
rs of memory. We think Of the sac ir
fee, the tenderness and the fidelity NJ
it'll which she watched over the ten
sr years of infancy; of the patience, C
e prayer and the pains with which q
lie gently guided youth to higher ia
eals," and of life with her in ma M
rer years, when as a wise mother tr
10 became counsellor, companion and IN,
lend OF the dear old mother to r.
hom the man, himself ripe with W.
ars and loaded with honors. or ours n
With sin, is still her boy" or the III
RI grown to woman's estate, perhaps vo
rself a mother, is still to Moth ~
" the dependent babe Of former
ars, in the long ago. IT,
Then too comes that other vision OF -
,thers who have been the patriots -
their nations, when the need Of fre
ton called for patriotic devotion.
cir sons died gloriously on the field ce