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Show 1 father's Bay (EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is reprinted for Mother's Day from an old edition of the Roosevelt Standard. The author, Mrs. Frances K. Smith, lived in Bennett and Roosevelt for many years prior to her death, March 7, 1948.) Can we make better use of the time allotted to us on Mother's Moth-er's Day, May 14, or the second Sunday in May, than to dedicate it to "The best friend God gave (Jo man?" whether we are so uortunate as to be permitted to wear the red carnation, or with tender thoughts of our departed mothers, we pin on " the white. God bless our mothers, as , most they would desire, through the love, appreciation and worthiness of their children. All mankind does homage to mothers, all nations and tribes reverence them as the most faithful and devoted of human k kind. In all tongues have been J sung the highest praises of moth-J moth-J er devotion; in the most touching touch-ing melody, mother love. In order or-der to write worthily on this subject one must live in close touch with the all-wise Master, 1who gave to mortals this most Precious of all gifts. Until children become of independently in-dependently responsible ages t thinking, knowing personalities personal-ities their parents and particularly particu-larly their mother, are their guides. They represent to the "nle ones truth, love, knowl-I knowl-I jjdge, faith, hope and wisdom. Mother's image is second only t the divine. Children fear no evil when mother is near have unbounded faith in the security ot her arms. She reaches beyond human ken with untold anxiety xo Place her treasure's welfare a surer foundation than the ine shifting sands of mere earthly earth-ly accomplishments, however de-' de-' stable these may be. How ten- derly mothers guard the early years of childhood, endeavoring to plant g'ood thrifty seeds (habits) (hab-its) to guide their impulses in the right direction. If faulty, she, by loving kindness strives to win them back to the paths of rectitude; if worthy to urge them to a yet higher plane of endeavor. She is the keystone in this wondrous psalm of life, ever striving to reach a more perfect comprehension of her duties toward the little ones entrusted en-trusted to her care, to be a companion com-panion in their studies, work and pleasures, that they may become be-come worthwhile citizens, to form such characteristics as may withstand the temptations and trials of life; that their labors I may prove worthy of a rich and plenteous harvest for time and eternity. Can we fully comprehend and appreciate the devotion and sacrifice, sac-rifice, the soul piercing anguish with which our mothers placed our cause upon God's altar in sickness, and when the cold waves of adversity swept over us? Yes, there is a time when we recall with what patient endurance en-durance with what earnest endeavors en-deavors she sought to cover our defects and imperfections, ever admonishing us to more worthy deeds the time when the loved voice is stilled and the weary, toilworn hands are folded in rest a time when in anguish we view all that was mortal of our best and truest of earthly friends. It is then, in our soul's deep anguish we reach out for that which is imperishable that our wireless flies to mother bridging the dark valley o f death and in renewed faith we have the assurance that mother love can never die that it is a spiritual as well as a mortal attribute at-tribute ours through this life and all eternity. |