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Will JHOSe monuments OF GOQ love.
Of course we are speaking of true
mother, not mere physical one; We
won't mar our picture by dwelling on
the animal mother, though of the
higher animal. God has so filled a
mothers heart with tenderness that
the words of G. w. Lovejoy are beau
tifully descriptive of her:
God thought to give the sweetest
thing
In his almighty power
To earth; and deeply bordering
What it should be-one hour
In fOndest joy and love of heart
Outweighing every other,
He moved the gates of heaven apart
And gave to earth-a mother
To we appreciate this blessing as
we should? | hope so. Some of us
were deprived of this love even be-
fore we knew its significance, but 9th
or blessings were added.
These feeble remarks have related
TO the treasure that every human be-
ing possesses or has possessed for a
timn at least
How are the mothers of today
measuring up to Gods standard of
motherhood? Can your children rise
up and call you blessed? 1t is well to
pause adm listen what wise old Mar
Gus Aurelius says:
Your way then is to manage this
minute wisely to part with it cheer
fully, and like ripe nut, when you
drop out of the husk, be sure to speak
we'll Of the season and make your ac-
acknowledgements to the tree that bore
you"
People with no children may grow
old very serenely, but they are not
apt to.
The ancient Jews were right; chill
dren are a blessing, they make a
heart full, if not a pocket full. Rus
kin is credited with saying that
Those who add health, redblooded
human beings to the earth's stores
increase the real wealth of a nation
more than they who add money or
works of business, manufacture or art
to the worlds work of pleasure"
Of all things worth while the great
est thing is love and so closely do we
connect mother and love in our
thoughts that they seem inseparable.
Happy indeed is the soul that can say
when it comes to leave this earthly
lot, q have lived and loved"
God bless the mothers.
But is all the responsibility thrust
upon the mothers? Not by any means.
The wife who will not bear children
for economic or selfish reasons is tru-
ly parasite, she weakens the vitality
OF those on whom she fastens herself.
The wife. however, who for physical
reasons is denied the joys and spar
ed the responsibilities of motherhood
is not regarded as such. Motherhood
does not reach its highest and nOblest
functions in the mere bearing of chill
dren. The supreme test lies in i'm
proving the entire race through cor
rect and loving up-bringing of chill
dren.
Universal motherhood-th child
less wife who can rise above person
al. individual disappointment can full
fill her mission by deyoting her ener-
gies or a part of them to the general
uplift of child life, and in thus acting
is doing Gods work as much as a
mother. The chidless wife should so
guage her life and actions as not to
be a subject of pity or scOrn, but a
tremendous power in the community;
should be one whose natural instinct
of motherhood is more potent in any
fight for child's rights than the ballot
itself
God requires much of mother and
equally as much of us who are not
mothers God made you to be YOU
and fill your own place and not to be
some one else, and try to fill some 9TH
er's place.
SO in one thing we can all rejoice
the blessing of having a mother She
may be with us still, she may have
passed on beyond; if the former, be
to her the pleasure you would have
your child be to you; if the latter,
strive to meet her after you have an
swered the final summons.
Let's continue to celebrate Moth
ers' Day. 1t inspires us to higher.
purer living, better thoughts and