Semi-weekly herald., 1917-10-01
PAYS TR|B-
UTE TO
MOTHERS

Introduced by splendid musical
program by Messrs Limit and Harris,
assisted by Mr.. Cundy and Mrs.
Moody, Rev. Lockhart was in happy
mood last night. His sermon was a
beautiful tribute to motherhood and
merited even a greater crowd than
was present. He said in part:
"'You have only one mother, my boy
to pray that in good path you
may stay
"'Who for you will not spare self
sacrifice rare SO let honor that
mother Away
And the time to do honor to her
is now while she is yet living. Take
the flower you wear in her honor,
hand it to her and tell her of your
love, or if absent write her a letter
and tell her of this meeting and of
your love for her.
Let us spend our money for
flowers now and not pile them on her
casket, when gone.
"The three sweetest words in Eng
lish tongue has been said to be
| mother, home and Heaven, but the
two latter words cannot mean so much
unless we know the significance of
the first.
"Jesus Christ. the best friend of all
said, 'Oh. woman, great is thy faith.
And women have been noted for their
faith and loyalty. There are 44.000,-
900 men in America and only IL ,000,-
900 of them are even nominal christ
| ians. This nation is fast changing
for no class of people are responding
to the appeal of Jesus Christ as men.
There is a veritable revival on thru
out the world among men and unless
our women turn from the silly shallow
foolish things of society their preem-
inence in religious interests will soon
be superseded by that deeper and
more real religious sentiment that is
fast growing among men. But we
naturally think of women as being
better than men. know / do. The
two greatest influences that have
ever touched my life have been two
women's lives, my mother and the
mother of my own dear children.
God created in an ascending scale
and the last and the crown of his cre-
ated beings was a woman and if wo-
| man is the crown of Gods creation
then l want to say that the crown of
womanhood is motherhood. / have
sympathy for that woman from whom
there has been withheld the joy of
motherhood, but for that woman who
is properly endowed and into whose
| life there has come q real and true
love and who then deliberately turns
away motherhood-for such l have
| the profoundest disdain. No great
| er honor has God ever bestowed upon
| any of his children than the gift of
| motherhood.
81 want to speak of mothers in
fluence. 1t is said, The hand that
rocks the cradle is the power that
rules the world and this is true,
| like mother like son. Napoleon once
| said, The great need of France is
| for more good mothers and Napoleon
was a striking illustration of like
| mother like son. For a few months
before he was born his Corsican moth
er was riding in the battles of her
native island and Napoleon was born
with a warriors instinct.
"a fitting background for John
Wesley moving the great multitude
with his preaching would be his moth
er, Susanna Wesley upon her knees
in prayer for her boys.
Roosevelt says, Americas great
est asset is her christian mothers.
God hasten the day when the influence
of our mothers shall reach yet far.
ther until her voice and influence shall
| be felt in the counsel of state. In
| stinctively she stands for those things
that are the best of our homes. II
very mother in America had a vote
there would be no question of the re-
suit when the prohibitory amendment
comes before the house of representa-
tives in Washington. If the mothers
| of the nations of the earth had beer
consulted there would be no great
world war today"
| A big day is planned in the Tab
ernacle tomorrow. The Sunday
schools will march in a body to the
Tabernacle in the morning. The evan
gelist will preach to men Sunday al
3 p. m, on "Men's Sins" Sunday
night he will preach on Excuses"
NOTICE TO BEAN GROWERS.