The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-10-20
BE TRUE TO YOUR MOTHER.

We may search this wide, wide
world from shore to shore, but we
shall never meet an earthly friend
! lust like mother. We may have
friends by the score who are willing
Ito stand by US, yet not one of them
can fill mothers place. When we
were weak and helpless little babes,
it was mother who spent unknown
hours of care and anxiety as she ten
derly cared for US. When we be-
came sick it was mothers tender
hands that soothed our aching brow.
When we strayed from paths of right
it was mothers gentle, loving voice
that sweetly called US to return.
When sorrow and distress came to
US and all this cold and pitiless world
turned it's hack it was mother who
stretched forth her loving arms and
tenderly embraced us. A mothers
love is ofttimes compared to that
of our blessed Savior. 1t is an un-
dying love. A mother will give her
life for her child. Boys and girls
who may chance to read this, Is
mother living? If so, obey her coun-
sci, be kind to her. Rarely, if ever,
will she give wrong advice. She
is your best earthly friend. When
she has gone, you can never find
another to fill her place. Live life
that will make her rejoice. Do not
60 against her wishes. Seek ever
to cheer her tender loving heart.
Disobedience to mother is one among
the first steps to ruin and disgrace.
Many a man has filled the drunkard's
grave because when boy he disre-
garded mothers advice. Many a
man has lost his life on the hang
mans scaffold because he departed
from mothers counsel. Many man
today is shut out from society and
freedom behind walls of stone AMI
bars of iron because he needed not
mother when boy. Many bright
girl has strayed deep into sin and dis
grace because she failed to give heed
to her loving mothers advice.
Dear girl and boy, let me repeat,
be kind to mother, take her advice
today. There is coming a time when
you will long for that loving hand
to sooth your aching brow, but it
cannot reach you. There is coming
time when you'will desire to hear
mothers gentle voice speak forth
words of sympathy and advice, but
alas, it will be forever still. There
is coming a time when you will long
to see mothers kindly beaming face.
but ah, sad thought, it will have van.
ished. Mother cannot always abide
with you. Some day God will cali.
her from your presence. Then you
will realize the solemn fact, that
your best friend has gone.
This is q known fact. Once had
a dear loving mother. O., how sweet
is the memory. For many long
years we journeyed life's pathway
together. But alas, this sweet union
did not last. One sad October after.
noon just after the shades of night
had fallen, God called. We gathered
around her bedside and said good.
bye for the last time on earth. It
was then I fully realized that my best
earthly friend had gone.
Boy, girl, if mother is living be
kind to her. Cherish that dea.
heart. Strew flowers along her path.
way in life. If you wait. to place
them on her grave it will not profit.
She cannot appreciate your kindness
in deaths silent sleep. There are
many, many, heart-broken mothers
today weeping as they totter toward
the tomb on account of a wayward
son or daughter.
Should one who has strayed from
mothers longing view read these
lines, let me beg you flee back to her
loving arms, comfort that bleeding
heart in its declining years. She is
waiting for you, she loves you still
Dear Reader: Be true to mother.
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