Show mother influence in in life of the redeemer no incident in con connection neAlon with the mighty tragedy of the cross has any deeper pathos or oner finer signI significance fleance than tile the recorded words now there stood by abe cross of jesus ills 1113 mother there can be little doubt that deep as was her understanding of ills life and the import of nis his ministry she was mas incapable of compre hending bending to its full worth the significance ni ance of the crucifixion no written words could indicate the depth of tier lier sorrow or the greatness of her disappointment in few of the lives of tile the groat great and the good does the mother influence figure so largely as in the life of jesus one yearns to enow know something of those years of obscurity thed in nazareth Jsn Nn zareth end and of the intimacies cies cles that existed between tooth mother and son what a record such pages would make of motherly love and filial devotion I 1 we to do not have to strain our imagination to conceive in what explicit and loving terms ile ho talked with her concerning the groat great issues of ills his life doubtless to no one did ile he confide the purpose of ills lifes work mork as to ills ro mother other and certainly front from no one else dirt ife he receive such assurances of devotion and encouragement little wonder Is it that the muster master painters of the world bae concentrated their genius in producing on canvas this glowing and glorious glor loui intimacy brush perhaps above all others hns has produced the immortal canvas of mother and child the whole story of tile gospel lifts motherhood to higher levels of distinction than it ba had ever known before and alary the mother of jesu Is the highest approximation of our ideals concerning this lost sacred of all offices |