El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-05-19

hafh not given us the spirit Of fear:
but of power, and OF love, and Of
sound mind.
THE mOdernist mother found an
apologist in the pulpit of the
l. First Methodist Episcopal
church. Standing before an audience
assembled for the observance OF
Mothers day, Rev. John N. Jackson.
pastor OF the church. announced hts
sermon subject as THE New Woman
as = Mother" and said Sunday:
Il appear this morning for the de
renee wish to be heard IN behalf
Of the accused this Mothers day In
the court OF public opinion. Ny
client IS a woman-and a mother
mother OF the humanity that is yet
to be-mother OF the world Of to-
morrow.
my task is an ingiorious one. This
Gay occasions my client from all d.
rections the contumelious stone. And
with the stone is the added curse
/ that in many instances II falls from
the eminenee Of the pulpit, and from
hands held up as holy. Shameful
but true, many Of the bouquets OF
rhetoric brought forth on Mothers
| day, and lachrymally labelled For
Mothers Grave and paraded as floral
I 10 the memory OF Ile con-
ventional motherhood OF days gone
/ by-many OF these bouquets will have
/ brick-bats in them for the enlight-
ened motherhood OF the day to come.
! Il shall not do today what Is the
ordinary thing for a preacher on such
misunderstood me. II is not that I
would honor the motherhood of yes
! terday the less. It is rather that BIZ
justly recognizing the rights OF the
new Motherhood OF today, I would
honor the worth Of all true mother
er in heaven will not be grieved. 7
/ am sure, II after having seen her
with the eye OF memory again, IN
the happyland Of our childhood-see-
ing her as she was In the time OF
her beauty, living in the mellow light
Of other days. and then. turning our
gaze hesvenward, seeing her, with the
/ eye OF faith. in the better land OF
our souls true country as she moves
calm beneath the tree OF life. for
ever TO abide in fadeless loneliness.
with a smile on her dear lips such
as heaven isl am sure that we may
without Offense endeavor in this hour
to make room for somewhat more OF
heaven down here where hell is set
up on earth.
''The problem Of saving the world Is
largely a problem Of getting better
| mothers from generation to genera
tion. Let Us hastily observe the road
from the past on which we have
come.
World Belonging To Males.
"As we look into the immediate
past we see a world belonging abso-
lutely to males-and in some commu-
mites at no great distance from here
you don't have to even turn round in
order to see it: you have only to
open your eyes and look about you.
and you viii see a world owned abso-
lutely. and run, by men Father and
brother, and lover own it-mother
and sister and sweetheart own moth
ing Perhaps in the interest OF per-
feet accuracy that last statement
should be amended: they do own
their souls, II not their bodies.
ALSO, in lieu Of a human being S
| birthright IL is recognized that a
woman Is entitled to a sugar-coated,
windy. indefinite something common
" knewn as 'respect,'-so long as
she can be an attractive mate. OF
course this respect is a very great
deal Who that has ever when in
the elevator OF a tall building seen
the hat to women-cf certain condi-
tons and colors-could reasonably
ask for more2 But. there are women
who are just unreasonable enough
to do it-they do ask for more and
their nun Der seems TO be on the in
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women who have been in school
and these women are now as
serting that they find the word
BRAINS should not be parsed in
the masculine gender, that the word
in fact IS common gender: masculine
and feminine Also these women are
noisily insisting that such words as
BUSINESS. MATHEMATICS SCIENCE
tORATORT. ART and even POLITICS
have feminine gender as well. And
some Of them there are who profess
to have discovered that intellect in
women is no more exceptional than il
is in men. And others still, MAIN
tain the opinion that a woman ought
to think, and to live, and to have an
individuality. However, masculine
ridicule at such assumptions is rated
as one OF our popular sports.
Mother Household Drudge.
"On the other hand, IL Is worth
while TO observe. many a mother will
he haloed this Mothers day who all
her womanly life was little more than