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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 17, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 33.

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Mother

By Phila Butler Bowman

God made a home, where hearts might turn to rest When all the other homes of earth had failed.
God made a star whose light burned steadily When all the other lights grew dim and paled.
God made a voice that all the breadth of seas, The change of seasons, or the flight of years Could never silence, never rob of power To reach, to bless, to guide, to silence fears.
God made a love that wrapped our infancy, And blessed us, even when we knew it not— A love that knew no barrier, no self— A love that never faltered or forgot.
This was God’s gift, immortal, changeless, vast, Whose name he wrote, because he knew no other Name sweeter, on our waking consciousness, In golden characters, That name was “Mother.”
—Phila Butler Bowman.