The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-26

get the boys and girls started right
and the devil will hang crepe on his
door, bank his fires, and hell will ne
for rent
THE reason Moses was able to
choose affliction with the people of
God rather than enjoy the pleasures
of Egypt was because God took Ms
mother out Of the brick yard and the
field and gave her the privilege of be-
ing his guide. The Egyptian college
could not hurt Moses; Egyptian pleas
ures could not brutalize him. Egyp-
tian sins could o ruin him. Why?
Because his mothers, hand was on his
head. There is mighty power in q
mothers hand.
Before Moses found out anything
about Egypt, he found that his moth
er's religion was about the best thing
in the world, and when a boy finds
that put he is safe.
Emerson said: Men are what their
mothers make them, They are what
their mothers make them, and If the
mothers of today were true to their
trust, then they could send their boys
to college and need not be afraid or
them coming back infidels, like many
of them do. There is no power on
earth that can lift to heaven or shove
to hell like the touch Of a mothers
hand. Everywhere men have been
brought back from the valley of the
shadow of death simply by the touch
Of a mothers hand.
A Mothers Kiss.
"And there is a mighty power in a
mothers kiss - Inspiration, courage,
hope, ambition, in a mothers kiss.
One kiss made Benjamin West a
painter, and the memory of it chung
to him through life. One kiss will
drive away the fear in the dark and
make the little one brave. 1t will
give strength where there is weak
ness.
There is power in a mothers
smile. See the boy. how he will Guido
himself If he knows his mother is
watching him, and it makes the hard
places easy and the dark places light.
A long face and a gloomy look are
about the last things you ought to
give to your children IL you want to
inspire and cheer them.
There is power In a mothers song,
too. It's the best music the world
w heard. The best music in the
world is like biscuits-it's the kind
mother makes. There is no brass
band or pipe gan that can hold y
candle to mothers song, Calve,
Melba, Nordica, Games, Schunann-
Heink, they are cheap skates COM
pared to mother. They can't sing at
all. They don't know the rudiments
of the kind of music mother sings.
The kind she sings gets tangled up in
your heart strings. There would be
o disappointment in the music of
heaven to me IL there were no moth
ers to sing.
There is power in a mothers love.
Al mothers love must be like Gods
love. How God could ever tell the
world that he loved it without a
mothers help has often puzzled me.
If the devils In he'll ever turned pale,
it was the day when mothers love
famed up for the first time in a wo-
mans heart. If the devil ever got
cold feet It was that day, in my
judgment.
You know a mother has to love her
babe before II is born. Like God, she
has to go into the shadow of the vaI-
ley Of death to bring 1t into the world.
n she will love her child. suffer for
IT and 1t can grow up I'M become vile,
and vet she will love il. Nothing viii
make her hate 1t. Nothing viii make
her blame it. She always apologies
for 1t, no matter how vile it may be,
and I think. ome that one of the
awfulest things In hell will be that
there will be no mothers love there.