The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-15

upon the animal nature something not
there before. II made man rational.
brought the stamp Of the moral with the
attendant OF choice. 'to viii to do or
not To do,
ITO attain character means struggle
and with struggle there are heart breaks
and tears But what is the purpose To
make q world and also world Of man
kind The man of Gods forming VIII
be in Gods image when Gods work for
him Is done. In order 10 help accom-
pllsh this and show man Gods purpose
and the way of that purpose. there was
given the word Of revelation in The old
and the new. The fullest manifestations
in him who Is the way, the truth and
Tribute to Womanhood.
The sermon by the Rev. Greer Alvin
Foote at the First Presbyterian church
was based on the conversation OF Jesus
with the woman of Samarla at tho well,
and the only reference TO Mothers Gay
was contained in the following excerpt.
How ensy IL Is for us when we thirst.
to get drink of water! But imagine.
you ladies. in the days OF this Samaritan
woman. rising early in the morning and
trudging away over TO City Creek can
yon with a bunglesome old goatskin hang
ing down your back or a heavy water
jar, on your head to get water with
member. in the days when water had to
be carried far il was always the
women who carried it,
This is Mothers day and / want you
men and boys to be thinking OF what
your mothers have had to bear for your
sakes. For o, the women OF this world
how for centuries they bore the burdens
of the shoulders aven as yet they bear.
and as ever they shall bear. the burdens
of the heart, How unfortunate that old
false idea that woman should bear the
brunt of the curse OF SIN. for that old
idea kept civilization back hundreds OF
years, II women had not been made the
bearers Of water for men, improved
watcrworls would have come long before
they did come We men pride ourselves
on our inventive genius. but isn't 1t
shame to us that we never invented any
labor saving machinery TO speak Of so
long as women were willing TO do our
drudgery for us?
II don't blame this poor Samaritan
woman for wanting to be relieved or
the toll Of drudsing away out there every
day after water, but 1 do blame the
man she lived with, who was as great
sinner as she. and was a lazy. con-
temptible cad besides. And with what
considerate! No wonder the poet wrote OF
Him. He was the first true Gentleman
that ever breathed.'
Rev. Neel Is Eloquent.
The Rev. c. r. Neel Of the. Central
Ice to the topic. Mothers Day" and a
brief synopsis of what he said is given
as follows:
THE second Sunday in May has come
10 be known as Mothers day. What
time is more appropriate than this month
of birds and flowers to commemorate the
dearest @ affection a, Of the heartm,motheT's
following In honor Of this day:
"An hail to the nations mothers,
All hail TO her knights brave and true!
God hasten the day OF their crowning,
God bless them for what they Will do.
She asks but the love of her children,
The heart OF her husband, and then,
| Holding them close through all sorrows.
Be with them where joys never end
$50 high and holy a name as mother
| cannot fall too reVerently from human
| Is made possible because of her, Dickens
has said: The virtues of mothers are
| to be visited upon the children to the
| third and fourth generations as we'll as
| the sins Of the fathers Shaftsburry has
| said: Give me a generation of Christian
| mothers and 1 will change the whole face
! of society
1.-The Spartans were the greatest SOL
diers OF all times because the mothers
| sent their sons forth with these words:
| Come home bearing thy shield in honor
who said II was my mothers kiss that
| made me artist Thomas Carlyle
| wrote 10 his mother: May God reward
you for all you have done for me;
| "Of all the names OF memory dear.
| One name to me alone Is dearest.
| Though many names to me are near
Yet this shall be the nearest,
| For on my hearts most sacred place
| 'Tis deeper graved than any other,
| Nor naught from thence shall e'er erase
The lovely, honored name of mother"
Home Is Above Law,
| "What an influence for good Il mother
| is in a home. Law is but the reflex OF
home training. Thoughts sown In the
minds OF children today will mold public
sentiment tomorrow. They who hold
leading strings OF children WELD a greater
| power than those who hold the reins
of government The hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world. In the home the
mother is "the lodestone OF all hearts,
the lodestar OF all eyes Her thoughts
are wrought into words, words into deeds.
deeds into character. An angel was sent
! To the earth. so the legend runs. TO
/ gather the most beautiful thing In the
world. He hunted long and at last
gathered a bed OF roses. then he saw @
! baby smile and he said. "I'll take that, "
but beside the baby was the mother's
| love, and lie said, "I'll take this" Then
| he flew away to heaven But when he
reached heaven the flowers were wilted.
the baby smile had faded but the moth J.
er's love was as bright and beautiful as