Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-07-30
DIVINITY OF WORLD
Nothing Can Be More Worthy OF
Worship Than the Mothers
of Men.

real divinity of this world is the moth
ter. A few know it now, but the most
prefer strange gods.
Because men always have and still
do worship, 1t is fair to assume that
!they always will.
Every man exalts something or
ssome one to whom he pays homage.
Every man has some one place more
ssacred than all the rest where he
stands In awe.
No man can worship without taking
upon himself the image and likeness
sos the being or thing which he adores.
Every heart that loves has the divine
bright to be the first wooed and won.
The man who said that God COM
tnands men to love Him did not under
igtand the nature of the human heart.
THE old religion and the old worship
Shave done about all they can for this
world. The old themes are thread
tbare, they make no impression. 1t is
probable that for every maa who read
the Bible this morning there were
thousands who read the newspapers.
Current Events Interest.
What the editors and correspond
ssnts who are on earth now say today
as Of more interest to the average man
ahan what Paul or Habakkuk said the
day before yesterday. The current re-
aigicn is archaic. 1t belongs to the
past. The time has arrived for new
divinity, and that divinity Is THE
Mother" Men have worshiped vari-
sous and useless things. There Is
aothing more worthy than the moth
ssrs of men
1t requires but the slightest effort
to adapt all we think or fancy of God
TO what we know of the mother. Men
speak of God as being mystery,
providence and power, author and
preserver of life, the inspirer and help
er. We do not know that he is any
OF those things, we do not know what
he is But those terms are applicable
Ito the mother of men. She is the vast
and sacred mystery, the keeper Of the
miracle and sanctity Of life.
Lying beneath her loving heart In
the mysterious birth sleep, fashioned
by Natures deft and unseen hand, life
awaits the moment when with sur
1prised and startled cry 1t comes upon
the shores of this strange world.
If there is anything about our
Thought of God that we cannot trans
Her and adopt to our thought Of moth
ser and motherhood then our idea Of
God is poor and mean and our idea of
motherhood is meaner still. The Di-
wine Providence is theory-a theory
that is not warranted by the facts OF
life and the world. The maternal
providence Is a fact without which
kmankinG would perish from the earth.
lAll that they claim for Christ all and
more, may be claimed for the mother.
Sufferinss of Mother.
They say he suffered for us; that
the died that we might live. But the
suffering upon the cross has been
more than matched thousands of
times The suffe-ings of the man
that was crucffied was less than the
suffering of the mother who stood over
there. in the darkness and heard the
agonized cry, and then, when her son
twas dead, knelt at the cross and
sclasped his feet and covered them
with kisses and tears.
The deeper and more tragic pain Is
that which the heart feels. The moth
sers OF men have tasted death for
ssvery man."
The old religion has much to say
about the necessity Of forgiveness. As
IA matter Of fact, most Of the sins OF
4xhis world consist of wrongs commit
he'd against mothers and the children
kof mothers. If motherhood we're hon
cred as divine, If throughout the 30
sctal, the industrial and the business
world no injustice was done, no wrong
committed against mother nor her
schiid, sin would disappear from the
earth
We should not then build cathedrals
and temples for the gods, and poor
nouses for women and children.
The time will come when we will
&ake our divinity from the skies and
Having domesticated 1t, make for it a
Eaouse in the world that is now
Our Christian civilization will then
tbe succeeded by a humane civiliza-
ition. All that Is OF value in this world
all Of virtue sad excellence, all of per
manent good, depend upon the respect
Nhe reverence, the alteration in which
the sons of men hold the mothers OF
Essence of the Divine.