The Washington herald., 1918-01-11

builded the pyramids or the Sphinx,
and the mother OF Wesley did moro
for the world than many q man who
has his mug cast In bronze or painted
on the canvass or carved In marble.
The training OK q Luther, or q
Bunyan, or a Calvin or q Lincoln:
that Is greater than to be q Caesar, or
a Napoleon. or an Alexander the
Great. or q Chariemagne, or q Han
nibal.
Oh! to launch q boy. to launch q
girl. to live for Jesus Christ and vir-
tue and the truth! oh! that Is greater
than to launch 4 battleship with eigh-
teen inches OF hard lron-steel. and
men enough on her 70 make a city.
Now this nation has no better friend
than the mother who win teach her
boy or girl to pray. This nation has
no worse enemy than the one that
teaches them TO sneer at God and at
Jesus Christ and his truth. The
mothers are the home makers and the
home keepers, and the place where
we are treated the best Is the place
where some OF US knock and Rrowl the
most. Bob Ingersoll said. 1T takes
a hundred men to make q company.
but only one woman to make a home"
At an International Y. NJ. {, A. con-
vention 100 OF the picked men from
all the civilized world were there as
delegates and this question was asked.
How many OF you men attribute your
salvation to the influence OF your
mothers-stand upr'
Every one OF those LOO men
arose and In that mute way paid one
OF the most glorious tributes to the
memory and power of Christian wom-
anhood that this country has ever
gazed upon, and say to you. the
world owes a debt Of gratitude to the
mothers.
The greatest men were mothermade
men. Augustine the Great. Martin
Luther, Constantine, oliver Cromwell,
Susanna Wesley, oh. she was not only
the mother OF John and Charles. but
she was the mother OF the Methodist
church that marshalled 100000 Of
Christendom.
Oh! we love to revel IN the paint
lngs OF Benjamin Castle, and as we
do we are reminded of the fact that
he said II was his mothers kiss that
made him a painter. When a little
boy years old. playing with his
sister and some little friends, with
Cohio hiNNNAss ohA pepPttSt NOOh n
pencil and paper and sketched them
so perfectly that you could look on
and recognize them. His mother came
in. threw her arms about little Ben
jamin. kissed him and said,
Honey, you will make a great artist
some day." and Benjamin said he car
rled the fragrance and the memory OF
that kiss with him through the world
as his inspiration, long after his moth
er was singing in the choir Of heaven.
So We love to revel there, my friends,
and so that glistening and glittering
pillar on the banks OF the Potomac
that tosses its head 555 feet above the
fog. while the crowd surges around II,
like the waves OF a sea, that Is not
only George Washington's monument
but II Is his mothers monument too.
Because II George Washington had
had a mother like Happy Hooligan's"
he would have gone around with q tin
can on his head.
And sir. hold a minute. this nation
owes It to itself to discover what
ever Is jeopardizing and assaulting our
homes; and whenever a nation refuses
the request of the mothers and then
turns around and refuses the mothers
the privilege OF defending their homes,
because they deny them the right to
vote, then sir. sure oblivion awaits.
II you haven't got the manhood to
arouse and defend our wives and our
mothers and our children against the
assaults OF evil and iniquity and the
damnable whislxey traffic; if we are not
brave and decent and manly enough
to do It. then put the ballot in their
hand and they will drive It into he'll.