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A MOTHER’S ANSWER.
Lillie E. Barr.
The good man took the Sacred Book,
And the trial of Abraham read,
Until in the solemn shadows,
The sorrow grew wondrous near —
Fathers looked at their own bright sons,
And the mothers dropped a tear.
Thoughtful all sat a little space,
And then the Dominie said:
“David, couldst thou have done this thing?”
And the old man bowed his head,
And standing up with lifted face,
Answered: “I think I could,
For I have found through eighty years
That the Lord our God is good.”
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“Janet, you’ve been a mother oft,
Could your faith have stood the test?”
She raised her grandchild in her arms,
And she held it to her breast —
“God knows a mother’s love,” she said,
While the tears dropped from her eyes;
“And never from a mother’s heart
Would have asked such sacrifice.”
“O mother, wise,” the preacher said,
“O mother, wise and good,
A deeper depth than man can reach
Thy heart hath understood.
Take Janet’s sermon with you, friends,
And as your years go by,
Believe our Father no poor soul
Beyond its strength will try.”
There are no colors in God’s heaven-bent bow,
Nor is there music in the choiring sphere,
Can paint thy smile from out these youthful years,
Recall the music of thy voice so low
And sweet, dear mother, in the long ago.
But gone art thou. Ah! how the bitters tears
Burned deep into my heart! How memory sears
But cannot heal those wounds ,while tears still flow.
Back from those bright and happy days gone by,
Echoes of childish mirth and cradle song!
Thy guiding hand and presence then were nigh,
And I am weary, and life’s road seems wrong.
I miss thy smiling face, thy watchful eye.
Life’s heaven was short. Eternity’s is long.
—John Allister Currie.
State-wide sentiment is rapidly crystalizing
in New Mexico. A state prohibition law has
already been passed giving municipal and coun
ty prohibition and the same has been signed
by the governor.
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The German government has become so ac
tive in its advocacy of temperance that it has
sent a circular to every industrialist in the
Empire, through the trades societies, urging
instruction to the youth and women workers,
of the dangers of alcohol.
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Colonel Gilmore, of model license fame, is
quoted as saying that the Webb law recently
enacted by congress to prohibit the shipments
of liquor in dry states is “the weakest, the
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The Golden Age for May Bth, 1913
Heart Tributes to “Our Mothers.”
Grunts and Groans From King Alcohol
By W. D. UPSHAW.
MOTHER LIVES.
By A. C. WARD.
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Tho’ the months are many, Mother,
Since you left our hearts and home
Yet your voice is speaking daily
Wheresoe’er my footsteps roam!
Tho’ the “far-flung line of battle”
Calls me to the tempest blast,
Yet thy voice can still the tumult
And thy hand can guide the mast!
Back to thy sweet, sacred altar
Fly my thoughts that seek the best,
And return to me all freighted
With the golden need of rest!
You are living, 0 my Mother!
How the thought my being thrills!
You are calling to me, Mother!
From the Everlasting Hills!
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The mother sending forth her child
To meet with cares and strife,
Breathes through her tears her doubts and fears
For the loved one’s future life.
No cold “adieu,” no “farewell” lives
Within her choking sighs;
But the deepest sob of anguish gives,
“God bless thee, boy—good-by!”
—Eliza Cook.
most unconstitutional, the most cowardly and
the most worthless piece of legislation ever
enacted by a national congress.” Surely, this
law must appear to the Colonel as a serious
proposition. This seems to be the light in
which Banfort’s wine and spirit circular views
it, for that says, “the national capitol is the
Hall of Infamy,” and all because congress has
given the dry states the right to do as they
wish in regard to the liquor traffic.
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Notice the line-up in the fight between the
temperance forces and the booze traffic crowd.
For temperance stands the educators, school
teachers, ministers, philanthropists, the church
people, reform workers, city missionaries, phy
sicians, scientists, the educated, the industri-
The mother’s heart is always with her children.
—Prov.
The voices of the loved and lost
Are stirring at my heart,
And memory’s misered treasures leap
To life with sudden start.
Thou art looking, smiling on me,
As thou hast looked and smiled, Mother,
And I am sitting at thy side,
At heart a very child, mother.
I’m with thee now in soul, sweet mother,
Much as in those hours,
When all my wealth was in thy love, \
And in the birds and flowers.
And by these holy yearnings,
By these eyes sweet tears wet,
I know there well a spring of love
Through all my being yet.
—Gerald Massey.
Mothers are just the queerest things!
’Member when John went away,
All but mother cried and cried,
When they said good-bye that day.
She just talked and seemed to be
Not the slightest bit upset—•
Was the only one who smiled!
Others’ eyes were streaming wet.
But when John came back agin,
On a furlough safe and sound,
With a medal for his deeds,
And without a single wound,
While the rest of us hurrahed,
Laughed and joked and danced about,
Mother kissed him, then she cried —
Cried and cried like all git out!
—Edwin L. Sabin.
Lord, give the mothers of the world
More love to do their part;
That love which reaches not alone
The children made by birth their own,
But every childish heart.
Wake in their souls true motherhood,
Which aims at universal good.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
ous, the capitalists, and cultured people gener
ally.
For liquor you have the saloon keepers, the
bums, the gamblers, the sports, the thugs, the
thieves, the cut-throats, the demi-world of
women, the ignorant, the vile, the toughs and
the vulgar-toned strata of mankind.
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Prohibition in North Dakota is causing a gain
in population four times greater than wet
South Dakota is making. North Dakota with
prohibition has more schools and more church
es, and less illiteracy per capita than any state
in the Union, and only lacks one of being the
wealthiest state, per capita.
Take your choice!
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