The Washington herald., 1916-05-15
MOTHERS name
lAUDED BY ALL
Sunday Given Over to Rever-
ence of Worlds Life
Givers.
FAMILIARITY DEPLORED
Kew. J. S. Montgomery. in Sermon.
Pictures Mother-Love as Main
spring of Humanity.

What this country needs more than
anything else is the tone Of reverence
IN the makeup OF its people-a rever-
ence for the mothers who brought them
INTO life and a reverence for the word
OF God. Thomas Carlyle said that unless
America felt deeper reverence for the
nooler things in life II would soon be
facing veritable Niagara Of difficulties!
So spoke Rev. James Shera Mont
somery, pastor of Calvary NJ. E. Church,
at the Mothers Day services in St
PauFs Lutheran Church yesterday after
noon.
Nowadays it is the custom of our
sons to come in the evening and say,
Well dad, what's on for tonight?' My
son does 1t and other mems sons do
it.
'Oh. for the day to return when father.
mother. and children met around the
table in the evening and either read,
listened. or discussed the topics in which
all were interested, We have wandered
away from that custom and into our lives
are creeping the baser things of life We
have forgotten home and mother and are
seeking only pleasure at the expense of
the memory which should remain the
dearest thing Of all-that Of mother-love.
Tells story of GarheId's Mother.
II distinctly remember the day after
President Garfield was shot I distinctly
remember that ! was sitting on a curb
stone in my home town, with a bundle
Of papers under my arm. and that read
in one of them the story of how a
messenger boy had carried the news to
President Garfields aged mother at her
home at Mentor, Ohio.
He found her sitting on the back
porch, stringing beans. He told her the
message he hsd come to tell. And that
aged mother cried out: Who could be
so cruel as to kill my boy! That he
was the President of the United States
never occurred TO her. She thought only
Of her boy, the blood of her blood, the
life Of her life.
And so it is with all Of us. Our
mothers cannot realize what pinnacles
any of US have attained. We are their
children first and last.
i remember my first day as a minister
OF the Gospel 1t was in Zionville. Ind.
Ard as I walked homo that evening
Enaw that my mother would want me to
ask the blessing at the table, which she
Cid knew she would want me to read
passage Of Scripture, which she did. And
ten mi~utes after I had retired, l heard
the o. -iE-I-wonan-she had been blind for
years-gr0De her way into the room, felt
her run her hand along the coverings to
my head and heard her ask: james, are
YOU comfortable?'
People should remember that their
mothers attended the little church on the
corner and that she was religious be-
cause she felt it was the only sort OF 4
life to live.
Mothers Prayers n Guidance.
And II any Of you ever stray aside
from the path OF right-living, just ask
yourself II you are living the sort of
life your mother hoped and prayed you
would live; see If it doesn't do you some
good 90
The meeting was held under the auspices
Of the Y. W. c. A. and the Y. NJ c. A.
Rev John T. HuddIe, pastor of the
church. offered the prayer and benedic-
ton. Miss Florence NJ. Brown presided
Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly played the
musical numbers, and Mrs. Julian A
BryIaski sang Mother Machree"
Other services COmmcmorating Moth
crs' Day were held in practically all ;he
churches Of Washington yesterday.