For Mothers by D. McLeod

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 25.

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For Mothers

By D. McLeod

CHILDREN need models more than criticism.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself.

The sooner you get a child to be a law unto himself, the sooner you will make a man of him.

We can never check what is evil in the young unless we cherish what is good in them.

Stories first heard at a mother’s knee are never wholly forgotten, a little spring that never dries up in our journey through scorching years.

Line upon line, precept upon precept, we must have in a home. But we must also have serenity, peace, and the absence of petty faultfinding, if a home is to be a nursery fit for heaven’s growing plants.

There are no men or women, however poor they may be, but have it in their power by the grace of God to leave behind them the grandest thing on earth, character; and their children might rise up after them and thank God that their mother was a pious woman, or their father a pious man.— D. McLeod.