The Washington herald., 1914-05-11
VOICE
MOTHERS DAY.
Her Life Furnishes Theme Of
Special Sermons at
Churches.
WHITE WORN
WHITE CARNATIONS WORN
Issuance Of Presidents Proclamation
Result. in City-wide Observ-
ance and Tribute.

II The first Mothers Day" held under
the joint resolution OF Congress and
proclamation OF the President OF the
United States was fittinsiy celebrated In
many Washington churches yesterday.
Choral music blended with the voices Of
the pastors in q splendid tribute to those
In whose honor May 10 in each year mas
h been designated for national homage On
the street and In church men. women.
and children wore red or white carna-
tons as a testimonial Of their devotion
TO mothers.
4 Police Department wore q white carna-
/ ton.
i, Mai Richard Sylvester had several
! hundred flowers sent to all the pre-
cincts. Mrs. Sylvester suggested to her
husband that all members of the force
wear a carnation In honor of their
mothers. Acting upon this suggestion
the superintendent had carnations sent
to the men.
This is the first time in the history OF
police departments in the United States
official cognizance has been paid by the
laws agents to Mothers Day."
| On all Of the buildings owned by the
District government nass noated in silent
tribute of the occasion according to
the Presidents proclamation.
Acting upon a suggestion in the joint
resolution. Charles Matthews. a civil war
veteran, carried a flag into the Universal
list Church in the morning and decorated
the communion table with It. The pas
tor. Rev. John Van Schaick. jr.. read
| the joint resolution and also the Presi-
dents proclamation At the conclusion of
his sermon.
Harry X. Thaw's Mother.
Mothers Crown" was the topic Of
% n
service at Gluton Temple Memorial
Presbyterian Church. The pastor told
Of the life. love. sympathy. and other
elements woven into the crown Of love
by the mother. He spoke of the Harry
Thay case as exemplifying the truest
type of mother sympathy. Zone of the
redeeming features of that tragedy"
said he. was the sympathy of Thaw's
mother. Throughout his long ordeal her
sympathy, as sincere as could be. was
with him. and backing him all the time
Mothers hopes for the future of her
offspring and the spray of forset-me-
nots she works into the crown of her
love were also referred to. Miss Grace
Burnap sang several appropriate solos.
Mothers Day." also was the subject
OF Rev. John Shera Montgomery at
Metropolitan Memorial N. z. Church. in
the morning he said:
An UndyfnG Memorial.
AN undying memorial Is the benedic-
ton of lives grown old and beautiful in
the stress and distress of hfe's work
and responsibility. No one Is at all able
to measure the heroism that bore the
daily cross. The holy exercise Of faith In
God and a passion for her eff-spring.
which is as deep as the bottom Of the
bottcmless earth, have brought our moth
ers through the years OF patient endur-
ance and quiet suffering. No one can
ever measure the wealth of love and devo-
ton they poured around the cottage
hearthstope. The shoulders are never too
stopped to carry the burden; the feet
never too weary to make the errands:
the breast never too tired to nourish and
to succor. Even when the consciousness
of existence Is lost in sleep. mother is
the guardian angel.
Mother love stands out like an angel
In might. II flashes from the heart upon
childhood like sunlight from a summer !
sea 1t shines like q fair goddess upon
the shifting years of manhood's prime. |
and at the last fingers long and sweet |
like an heavenly halo. around the whiten- |
ed brows of age.
May God help mothers to realize they !
are never so much needed in the old |,
world as now. Blessed little children |
want him. lost men and women need |
Him.