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Show Mother's Day And Mothers THE thought of setting aside a day to be called "Mother's Day" was a most happy one, I for on the .mother depends the character of a people, on the mother depends the status of the home. Since the birth of the Savior, motherhood has been still more exalted, though from the first, t the reverence and love drawn around the mothers, I have been in' great part the world's anchor. For thousands of years the Arabs have held that the great qualities of a horse are inherited, not from its sire hut from its dame, and the rule is as pronounced among men as among horses. Millions of men sorely tempted, have been saved by the thought: "Were I to do what I am contemplating con-templating now, what would my mother's spirit think, if now she is looking down from heaven upon me?" The sanctity of the home centers in the mother, and the man who through his passions pas-sions or his bigotry would cast a reproach upon that sanctity and dignity, never himself had a glo- rifled mother, nor knew the grace of full enlighten ment. Our country at first was settled by a primitive, pri-mitive, God-fearing people; the part which the ! mothers bore while the forests were being cleared between the eastern sea and the prairies, if prop- erly portrayed, would make the most fascinating book ever written. But it would require the pen I of an angel to Write it. We suspect that it has I been written, but that when it was finished, it was r declared to be too sacred to be entrusted to " worldly keeping, and hence was filed in the im- ' mortal record of the ages. In this world it has had a partial portrayal only. It has shone out in five great wars, in (the dauntless heroism of their sons, it has given them the strength to storm the wilderness and to build from sea to sea, temples to justice, to mercy, to industry, to learning, to religion and to freedom. And in homes where the frpest and most ! generous race" that the world ever saw are the in habitants. Hail then mother's day! Let it be filled with music and flowers and smiles and welcomes, that the devoted ones may feel that more than a home and local interest attaches to them, but rather, l that a nation's arms are around them in affection and reverence, and that the splendors of tho ' Great Republic are but a reflection of the yearn-S yearn-S ings that filled their hearta, when they took upon ' - themselves their share and more, of the burdens of creating a nation, which nation, if the mothers (of the future shall be like those of the past, will eclipse in grandeur and in power, all the nations that have held rule since the beginning of Time. |
