The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-08
A SACRED DAY

OF all the days set aside by noble purpose and
lofty thought for speca+ observation, there is none
more sacred than Mothers day
1t is more than 81 ateful tribute for life itself 1t
is recognition Of the great continuing force
of civilization.
The man or woman too callous to think kindly OF
her who gave life and direction to that life on this
day casts reflection upon the sacredness or mother
love- They merely brand themselves and bring pity,
not contempt to their sad solitude of bankruptcy
Of SOUL
The boy or girl who is thoughtless OF the mean-
ing Of the day needs pity.
Mother love is thing divine
1t is not bestowed because of merit or of service.
It is unselfshness, pure and undefled
1t Is given alike to the dutiful and the neglectul,
to the and to the failure; perhaps most OF
all to those who are called failures by the worlds
harsh standards
1t follows son to the White House and with
equal fervor and undiminished force stands at the
side of the gallows to receive the broken body OF
the boy who pays the penalty for highest crime.
1t will rejoice with the daughter who gains fame
and will weep with her whose breast is scared with
the ed mark of infamy.
Not wealth fame honors can increase it
by the tines fraction, does disgrace and failure
take away particle of its force
1t is the one factor in every life that is absolute
and steadfast, changing, faltering never
waverng.
If we ask ourselves where we received all the
impulses for good that may have in hearts or
which the world reflects, will trace it back to the
inspiration of the mothers Of the world and to our
mother.
Men sit in solemn session and pass laws, but all
the laws that written by men never
aroused one noble impulse or created strand of
character.
Men write their ideals into statutes, but back
Of those statutes has been created conscience and
an impulse for those ideals
The law only terrifes the weak. Prisons only
punish the criminal Neither the law the prison
has taken theft from the heart of the thief or
murder from the heart of the killer
But something has taken cruelty out of human
nearts and crime out of human impulses and if we
seek the source, we are led back to the mothers of
who have prayed over the cradles of civilization
and breathed sweetness and sincerity and kindness
into the souls of men and women.
Men have developed the material civilization
which have.
1t is the mother who protects and guards is
spiritual significance.
From Lincoln, greatest of Americans to the low
Hest Of all, every realize all he has
of good came from some santed mother
Tomorrow is her day.
1t Is a day when those who are unable to go
and once more revel in the sweetness of her pres
may remember with letter if she be living
1t is day when if she passed beyond the stars
memory will turn in remembrance and in grateful
tribute to her who braved death that a new life
might be.
1t is day when much Of selfshness win be
washed from hearts that have been covered with the
ashes Of sordidness
Take this than promise because it is a
law of life, beyond change repeal.
The who always remembers his mother
never becomes bad man. The woman who keeps
love of her mother in her soul never becomes
a bad woman