Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-12
MOTHERS DAY
FITTINGLY OBSERVED
BY ALL CHURCHES


nearly all the churches OF this city
yesterday morning ut the early SER
| vices. Each year this day, set apart
for the Mothers. Is becoming more
and more significant in meaning TO
the'people and the churches in prac-
| tically every parish were well filed.
The growth IN popularity OF this an
nual observance IS manifested in the
wearing Of carnations. \ red flower
Is worn IL mother is living and If she
Is gone, a. white flower is worn in re-
membrance. The pastors in the va
riouS churches paid tribute TO the
mothers and musical programs were
arranged in an appropriate manner
for the day.
The following was published in the
| Youths Companion: There Is one
debt that you can never pay in full,
your debt TO your Mother. She does
not ask 1t or expect It-All she asks
and all she hopes. is just that you
pay the interest on it-and you can
not pay even that in money. but only
In patience and love and gentleness-
4 the one kind of currence that is legal
tend in the place where Mothers GO"
First Baptist Church
Mothers day was observed at the
First Baptist church by special music
and a special sermon at the morning
lservice. The choir rendered selec-
tons appropriate TO the day. The
sermon. Behold thy Mother" was de-
llvered by Prof. Ernest c. Mariner of
Colby college. and was in part as fol-
lows:
"One of the most touching incidents
in the whole Bible narrative, at once
divinely beautiful and humanity ten
ia IN
his mother and the beloved disciples.
They bring a message to us in this
twentieth century, a message that
bids us behold, consider our own mo-
Tiers.
The best men of the ages have been
tied to their mothers apron strings.
Washing ton has n really tyrannical
mother. Garfleld's mother was al
most equally as exacting. To the
discipline OF his mother Grover Cleve-
land owed that high sense of re-
sponsibility that characterized his
whole public career. Twenty four
times John Wesiey's mother taught
her boy the alphabet, and twenty
three times he forgot it. Blessed
above most men was Abraham Lin
coin, because he had two good, wise,
loving mothers.
Nothing Clings in memory like re-
collections of mother. Cowper's poem,
written on receipt of a long forgotten
picture of his mother. bears testimony
in homely. intimate terms to this re-
CoEntzed truth.
Dan Crawford. the famous mission
arY to Africa. wrote 4 book called
: The Glory Of Doing Without" ex-
tolling the life Of the African savage.
who has not known the enervating
| off of nt,;r Iic,ht
and other appurtenanCes of modern
, civilization. But Crawford needed
not To go to Africa to see examples Of
sacrifice. Every good mother praC
, tiseS every day that she lives the
glory of doing without"
Wordsworth. in his poem The At
niatiou OF Margaret" has painted the
endless patience. the ever-ready for
Eiveness. and the yearning tender
ness of mother love.
If mother is living. don't let her
worry. Give her attention, care and
love while she can still enjoy it.
If mother has passed on to her
Heavenly homo. live each day as if
she saw and understood our every
act Show respect for all mothers.
the true mark of the gentleman, the
worthy sign of an advancing Civili-
cation. Consider the great army of
working mothers. two million OF
them in the United States according
to the 1920 census. working that
their children may have the bare
necessities of life.
Work by mothers outside the home
has Il direct relation to infant NOR
taIity. In one CITY the infant death
: rate in homes where mothers are
present is 133 per 1000. while in the
homes where mothers work outside
the rate Is Us per 1000. In another
city the ratio is Jos to 161.
!. We may say that these conditions
I do not apply to Waterville, but
characterization workers have
shown that mother influence and H.
literacy are also vitality connected.
. 1t is surely no source of pride to us
, citizens of WaterVille that the 1920
census reports our city as having
the highest percentage of illiteraCy
! of any of the ten largest cities of
, Maine
Mother is the best manifestation
of Gods boundless love. Thackeray
. once said: Mother Is the name of
God in the lips and hearts of little
: children" The Russians have a
: very beautiful story. full of the sub
lime mysticism OF the Slavic race.
, Young Ivan, father and mother both
, dead. was in the last year OF the | nj
versity Agnosticism and rationalism
had nearly blotted from his mind the
fine mystical lacking in his life. He
. yearned to know God. One night
,, in a dream n messenger told him 10
follow and he would see God. When
at last he came to the appointed
place. and the messenger said:
Look. Ivan. and see God" the form
form and the face that he saw were
. the form and the face of his own
mother. In her face and the ex-
preston of her loving care were 4
true representation of what God is
!, like.
sion OF mothers devotion is con-
Mother of Mine"
NJ f. Church
Rev. f. A. Pollard Jones spoke on
Mothers Day" in part as follows:
In less than two decades Mothers
Day has come to have worldwide
interest. We cannot offer any full
tribute 10 motherhood in brief half
hour. But we can refer to certain
qualities that characterize the true
mother. She will be devoted 10 her
task and to her sphere in life. Loyal
~ will he an unfailing mark OF her
womanly power.-loyal TO the home.
loyal TO her friends. loyal TO the
church. She will also exercise an
unselfsh. motherly love. For adj
hitting all the glory of motherhood,
there are mothers and mothers
There are mothers in fact. There are
mothers in spirit. Many women who