A Mother’s Confession of Faith

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 21, 1916

A Mother’s Confession of Faith

“IT is easy to assent to an elevated generality, but hard to stick to one’s principles among the details of daily life,” says Dorothy Canfield Fisher. “The best possible prop to a good resolution is a full, clear statement of what it means to the maker in detailed practice. Every family, and especially every child in the country, would be happier and healthier if the house-mother would hang up over her worktable, and read every morning, some such confession of faith as this:—

“I owe a debt to my children. Having brought them into the world, their father and I owe it to them to furnish them a happy, free life of physical health, cheerful industry, intellectual growth, and moral dignity and sanity. To pay my part of this debt I have at my command a certain amount of money, physical strength, intellectual vigor, nervous energy, and spiritual force. If I am to keep my honor untarnished, I must, as every honest debtor does, use my resources first of all to keep up the payments on my debt.”