Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-30

Too gross to tread and all male minds perforce
Swayed to he from their orbits they moved
And girded her with music. Happy he
With such a mother! Faith in womankind
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy him; and tho he trip and fall
He shall blind his soul with clay.
@ oME0NE has said: Since God could everywhere He
- made mothers" truism merely figure of speech.
mother a home maker. And true home is haven of
refuge and a Of heaven
A mother il universal teacher. From her the child
walk talk and TO pray BY her he is taught the
meaning and practice Of all the virtues
The world to its mothers than to any other
source institution that has existed
Not that there are no good fathers the world There
and many of them
But the relation of child close and init
alike from circumstances of early association and
peculiar physical relationship which exists between
mother and her child else does WELD such an in
fuence she.
The profession mother only the most sacred and
useful the world is the most exactng and responsible
This be said without the least hesitation reservation
It is exactng to the last degree.
The of child through the long and anxious
years of infancy task which there vacation change
Eternal vigilance is the price all mothers pay for
healthy children And all mothers down the valley of the
shadow ere they
Sacrifice is their daily lot health beauty time pleasure
and all that appeals must be given mp to the
day and night of caring for helpless and unconscious in
fancy. Life itself often hangs in the balance
years go mother and child strong
and well falls to the mother to guide the child into the right
living responsibility that few called upon to
share and with which business loaded down how
ever ezaetng the nature of his varied undertakings
only arduous and responsible post involving in
credible sacrifice but it is ipad and equed in far too
Children all know, unthinkng They take
and demand much How many repay mothers with
ANYTHING like the love and service deserves? Too often the
mothers virtues find adequate euogy only upon her tombstone
Let all husbands and fathers, joint with her children
herh TO herf and
and the light ewes. mothers day is
hard best Let all make it brighter and easier for
her all days and every day
How often do we hear some this testimony:
Whatever have have done that worth while owe to
my mother
Happy tells his mother that while living
Happy tribute children
that she deserves
What shall daughter do to honor her mother her
ory?
She should cultivation Of that makes woman
hood attractive and useful Not BY tribute by appeals
chary by virtue of hereditary position the
sci But by devotion ideals which properly belong 10
her the embodiment of the finer Of mind and Of spirit
the outcome of Gods second and best thought
How shall a son honor his mother herr memory?
By remembering that womanhood sacred that the virtue
he associates with his thought memory his should
furnish the ground and incentive for his personal by
remembering that there God sight only standard of
virtue for and that he stand
ard in his relations with all eyerlastngy
plghed honor husband giving love and service cheerful,
and ungudgngy and showing chvary and unsfshness I'M
ashamed Of exhibiting the gener attributes conduct as wen
the stronger
man can pay no greater compliment to the memory OF
his mother than toward all for especial
~ toward his wife would expect his mother his sis
his wife
A who plays the Of life fairly with his fellows
because he has should fail play game fairly with
those whose relationship him that Of the affection.
By doing he will teach fairness by showing where
exaced by the rule in his relation
ships with other
THUS HE BECOMES A TRUE PARENT BECAUSE HE
4 TRUE TEACHER OF HIS CHILDREN
Is al 8liA for their
Children tod.