The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-11
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Churches with vast communions have ordainet
this new day. Just why have these millions Of peo
pie set up commemorative Sunday in honor Of the
mothers? With the very aged in attendance otter
with no smaE effort, and the younger mothers. too
they receive the reyerent ovation which is their due
For always the women have been the virtual founder,
of every sanctuary as well of the family. Away.
they are the very great majority in church member.
ship.
The maternal foresight has demanded place
where the children would be taught worship. The
men might forget. Not so the women. It is the
mothers who insist on the church. 1t is as near
to their hearts almost the home. From sea to
sea, if you trace back to the old first church." you
find the woman, mother tireless in her insistence
I'VE never have the church" Surely nothing was
ever more fit, for the affairs honor, than Mothers
Day.
All days are yours, our mothers. Mothers of our
own and those no less beautiful mothers of our
children We seem never to be deprived by nature
of the mothering by those two noble women.
As his years advance the need of it increases in
the thoughts of true He has no sooner said
the long farewell to the woman who bore him than
the man finds himself turning to the mother of his
own children with almost the identical hunger for
her maternal affection.
He takes his place among his sons and daughters
He learns from their lips to call her mother more
than half the time He depends upon her for ad-
vice, for defense. for comfort. In the submission
of his strength to her he uncovers again his own
boyhood and its regeneration rests his very soul.
What good and true wife is not more and more the
complete sovereign to her husband?
What man does not many times see in her grazing
locks reproduction of the silver of his mother
in her later days? And in this living he
adds the untold wealth of boys love for his
mother. ...
So that Sunday thus set apart appeals to men.
1t is the festival of womans affection And as the
best thing that God ever made in this world is a
good woman this is the best Sunday in all the year.
What memories are busy as the church bells ring.
We hear her warning to dress. I could close my
eyes and my mother wrestling with my rebellious
little necktie exactly as if she stood before me.
could hear her reproofs and expostuations to do bet
ter than last Sunday, and remember at least the
preachers text" My jacket, even my shoes, she in
spects, she stands in front of Every infection
of her voice / hear, my eyes being closed in
blinking submission. Alas, that open my eyes the
empty air. She is gone.
Did yesterday morning speak to you of your
mother and the sanctuary? MIayhap. if you went to
church, she was among that great cloud of wit
nesses" looking down, and You were nearer to her
than in any other place this footstool. The two
words sound well together. mother and the church.
No doubt the supreme ideas of man can be counted
on the fingers of his two hands. Among them would
be motherhood. Even native land is lesser thought
Impartality is twin idea. The gratitude that it
embraces is one of the most amicabe of human af-
fections. The worlds happiness centers in mother.
To love her is duty that almost equals duty
love God. 1t is well with the nation whose mothers
are protected and content She is the one change
less postulate of being. The hills may be removed
and the dried up, but the mother remains while
the earth remains.
Rossinis "Stabat Mater is ever singing on its
glorious way. But nobler sweeter music is always
sounding round the globe. The joy of infancy and
childhood centers in the mother, while memory finds
in her its highest consolation The best wisdom Of
all ages what mother said Nor is there any other
knowledge that keeps its hold upon u.s. BLESSED
art thou among women" As long the love for his
mother remains responsive in sons heart he is
safe from overthrow, and the daughter such love
is never-failing shield if she will use it.