| Show MOTHER HAS HAS' GONE GO It seems rather a different world since Ince Mother ha hn gone She had been lucre hero all tho the time She was th the first thing In Ih the recollection of or the iho children n. n Thi th y couldn't remember anything so early irb that Mother did not make e a part of the tho picture And she went vent nil all along tho Iho wa way never nc r very obtrusive but JUt always al there Somehow Somehow Somehow Some Some- how tile the throat grips as the children think of It fo for Cor wherever she appears In the memory there was as a bit o or of gentleness a comforting a tenderness They forget torget he her when the they think blush of or tb the big things the activities She Sho teems seems to Impress herself only on their remembrances when tile tho they needed her And now no she has gone gono away Tha They arent aren't really children now They are all aU grown and they thc haven't depended on her for tor so 50 man many years Yet somehow i li It has hns been heen their habit to tr try and preserve the pleasant fiction of their need o of her of or their reliance upon her hel of her wisdom directing Cull and controlling and oven reproving them They have done lone the best they could to keep her from Crom seeing that the years have come as a Mood Hood and have moved mo Mother Iother Into a n new relation to Co the lives hives of the tile rest of or them The They have hn been taking the burden on their lr own shoulders for or years cars and anel the she hc has hasI I beets been sitting silting there thore in the shade o which their provision gave e 3 f for fOl oi her comforting She has been sitting there and cund ne protesting that there thele wasn't any rem reason on wh wily why she clue shouldn't tin do 10 something But nut the they haven't let her take lake up again of the tile burdens burdell the lifted her an any o they long Jong ago from shoulders They rhey have havo tried to m make e life liCe easy for COl her She waited resting a n little as fiS tho 1150 afternoon shadows came caine Ie resting a I little II tic more and more each Cacil day letting go maybe half unconsciously the time hold her faithful lands hands had maintained so long on the tile control of or the children chil- chil Iron dren Ire letting the time days go b by with an nn Increasingly serene ense sens that everything e would be right that nothing very cry vital Hal was going to happen to tho the detriment of those sh she lad ham loved 10 from the time far fal beginning And Anel then one she folded her hands and anel turned ll her r r ir-r head si slightly t ii toward the time wall and ll the magical story o of f her ller life time the record of her hel work oric was done Mother 1 ot he r ho had t gone a away wa And Amid who sha shall II call her back IJ Who ho of or a all 11 of or II us would wish 11 her hor 1 to to tn come Into time the fitful fever evel we XV call lI life ml take up lIf even en for or one day the burden she carried carriedo so o long and und so well She has given ghen life liCe DIll and maintained It with her own She Sho has ilas spent herself utterly tar far the good of her children She has suffered so many sacrifices without proclaiming them has hos worked when st she should have h been en resting has planned with perfect acumen when either r of or the rest of II us would have e been distracted with cares and confuted confused ed with the multiplicity of demands And Auld now the end has come She Is resting What realm that g gentle spirit may Inhabit wo we can cap not know Imo but It If there be he a God God and and that she alwa always s believed cd In iii JIl Illinois n s o or our r proof proof His H has has- prep prepared rfd for her herka l r-a r rah a ahouse h house use eternal in the tho Heavens May In she find there through all the circling ages of eternity the thle peace leaCe the joy and the rest she sho bought hought a million times by her g here lucre On on earth And a above ove the unmoving clay which once was Mother th there re will fall Call time the tears of toe tile Children who have e not yet pt learned they tiley do un not need her |
