p. 311 | THE MOTHER RULES THE WORLD

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 13, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 20

THE MOTHER RULES THE WORLD.

It is hard for a young mother, who has not yet overcome the wayward tendencies of youthful nature, to realize the influence she exerts over her little ones. She is constantly surrounded by critical imitators who copy her morals and manners. As the mother is, so are her sons and daughters. If a family of children are blessed with an intelligent mother, who is dainty and refined in her manner, and does not consider it necessary to be one woman in the drawing-room and an entirely different person in every-day life, but who is a true mother and always a tender, charming woman, you will invariably see her habits of speech and perfect manners repeated in her children. Great, rough men and noisy, busy boys will always tone down their voices, and step lightly, and try to be more mannerly when she stops to give a kind word or a pleasant smile; for a true mother will never fail to say or do all the pleasant things that she can that will in any way help or lift up and cheer those whose lives are shaded with care and toil. The mother of to-day rules the world of to-morrow.—Selected.