Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-14
MOTHER EUL0GRED.
IN GLOWING TERMS.
BY REV. CAESSMAN
PASTOR OF BAPTIST CHURCH
GIVES IAN APPRECIATION.
TAKING TEXT FROM JOHN 1926
27--"NO SENTiMENTAulSM" TO
BE "HER BOY"

night at the Baptist church was
Mother An Appreciation Text,
John 1926, q. Jesus therefore see
ing his mother and the disciple whom
he loved standing by. says to his
mother, Woman. behold thy son.
Then says he to the disciple, behold
Thy mother. And from that hour the
disciple took her to his own house.
This text is one of the brightest
gems in the story of the Masters
ife, II portrays, over against the
lark back ground of the cross, the
leart.touching consideration of Jesus
or his mother in the hour his dying
gony.
There's good deal wrong still in
his old world, dark deeds are still
>erpetrated; the Son of God is cruel
led afresh in the world of today; but
still it is true, as in the day of the
ross. over against the dark back
round of much that is wrong shines
n transparent beauty all over this
world the noble sentiment of love for
mother
THAT love is found in most unlike
Y, most unsuspected places, have
seen beautiful demonstrations Of it in
he poverty-ridden slums of a great
ity where for three years | worked
mong the poorest of the poor. One
,f the most beautiful characters ii
has been my privilege to know was a
,irl whose home was bare garret
whose father was a confirmed invalid
nd whose mother was demented She
manifested consistently beautiful
oyalty and love for home and par
,nts.
"A boy brought before Judge Lind
ay's juvenile court in Denver was
,herged with running away from
chool He told the teacher it was
o work that he staid away. The
udge said to him it will be time
,nough for you to work when you are
, man. The lad replied to the Judge.
Father was a man, he didn't work.
Je went off and left mother and me
nd guess that was what killed her
zone day the boy came rushing IN
u the court with a look of JOY IN MS
ace. From his pocket he took
,rumpled piece of paper and handed
It to the Judge, saying, J VIII go TO
school now and mind all you tell me
for I've finished my job. The Judge
smoothed out the crumpled paper
vas a receipt for fifty dollars III iuli
,ayment for hcadstonc the boy haa
purchased with money he hlmSen
armed TO place on his mothers grave
wanted her TO have a monument
90. Judge, like the others had, ne
aid She done lot for me; tha' )
III could do for her now
1T is not sickly sentimentalism 10
,e n mothers boy Senator Bever-
dge tells of a naval hero OF the civil
| var a man who was absolutely rear
,eus when the battle was on, brave
,o,dier Yet. it was hfs custom to
yrltc home regularly to his mother
tho most affectonately the most en-
| learingly worded letters to his moth
~ II was Nelson, was it not, VINO
living on the bloody deck OF his war
rieate called out Kiss me, Hardy.
The bravest are the tenderest.
can of us remember where mother
,sed to pray. All all of us know now
or whom she prayed She wanted
Ter boy to grow up good man ana
| III thru those childhood days she new
,r ceased to cry to heaven to keep her
)oy from the pitfalls of life There
IRE mothers praying tonight who nave
| wandering BOYS out in the world
somewhere. God knows where. May
10 some of them are in the bread
| ines VI HluIHS away III WV ''"'''" "
he great city having made a mess OF
ife and gone down and down. But
10 matter how far they have gone
lwhy from nobility Of character one
never fails. one never deserts
mother, An aged mother In Georgia
went to Atlanta and begged the gov
ernpr to set her boy free from the
penitentiary r am an old woman
Iudge, she said and not long for thAs
world and ! do want to see my boy
rushing toward me and saying Ma
I'm free. Ma I'm free" The COVER
nor examined the records and fount
him charged and convicted Of one %
the blackest crimes on the calender
Ye, that mother loved him.
"If all the woman who brought chill
drcn into tho world were real moth
ers the world would be much bet
ter place tonight But the sad fac
is that they are hot. The juvenile
court is a commentary to the fact
and the detention home. When yol
know the facts 1t is no wonder som,