The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-15
In Honor of Mother.

4 Sunday. bv common consent we united IN
fhonoring mothers and motherhood We pause
/ for moment amid the activities OF our busy
lives to render hushed tribute to her who
presented to us the perfect example OF hu-
man love On this day yield ourselves to
the contemplation OF the height the depth,
the breadth and the unsearchable riches OF
mother love- and from such contemplation
seek to draw inspiration for the duties and
the tasks of life. Whether our mothers be
among the living or the dead all our sweet
est thoughts and our most hallowed recol-
lections cluster about her as fragrant and
lovely as the blossoms of sprngtime which
we utilize to express feebly and imperfecty
our love and alteration.
1t is scarcely possible to express any new
thoughts on the subject of mothers All that
there is to be said has been said hitherto
many times. Nothing will be said, however,
that will not bear repetition, re-emphasis,
and that is the purpose of Mothers day: to
reawaken in the mind sense OF our obliga-
ton to our mothers and to rekindle in the
shrine of the heart reserved to mothers the
fires of the love that burns there Tor them
Mothers give to the world the perfect ex
ample of unselhshness. We have many rea-
sons for loving them and for remembering
them with the deepest affection, but in the
final summing up we love them most because
CT what they did for us, what they do for
us. so unselfshy The mothers life is a life
OF service and self-effacement. All that she
has to give she gives freely, generously, with
holding nothing. Even life itself is not with
held when that supreme sacrifice is demand
ed The treasury of mothers love is in
exhaustible; riches never yet measured are
its store drafts upon it, even the heaviest,
diminish it not The more she is called upon
to give the more she has to give
In this life there is not great deal that is
not perishable. As we journey on we are
brought in contact with innumerable infiu-
ences, many of them affecting us lightly and
many of them strongly. Among them all only
one is imperishable, undying, eternal, and
that is the influence OF a mothers love- her
example of unselhsh service. Men and wo-
men forget much, but it is rare for one OF
them to forget a mothers instruction or
mothers love. They may yield to sin and
error, Dut tney 10 not IolSCl-hay, IllSy N
member often with sadness and remorse.
Few of us measure up to our opportunities,
few of us become what our mothers hope and
believe that we might be; but we do not like
to contemplate what we would be had we
not the love- the hope, the faith and the as
piration of mother to inspire and guide us.
Every one of us, bad as we may be or as
good as we may be, is better because OF the
mother influence that sustains and restraints.
Mother love and mother wisdom would
save the world if they were given opportuni-
ty. II men and women would do as their
mothers wished them to do if they would
be admonished and guided by the teachings
impaired at the knees of mothers, there
would be little wrong in the world.
To be successful mother requires the
possession of all the higher virtues, and it
is the glory of the human race that so few
mothers are found wanting. Motherhood de-
veops nobility, as the sparks fly upward. In
every rank and station OF life are found noble
mothers-mothers kind, and patient, and
wise, .and self-sacrhcing, and loyal, and true
The noblest ideals of humanity have their
rise in the hearts of mothers.
The relationship of mother and her chill
dren are the purest of human relationships
unspotted, untanted, as pure as the purest
lily. The flame Of a mothers love ever burns
with holy light; the love that sons ano
daughters bear toward their mothers is the
cleanest, the most unse1hsh love they know
The obligation of men and women towarc
their mothers is one they cannot hope to re-
pay in full, it is so great. 1t is fitting, there
fore, that this day should be set apart fol
taking thought anew of mothers and for re
conservation to their inspired ideals. Honor
ing them we honor ourselves and strengthen
ourse1ues for better and nobler living.