A Mother's Influence on Boys

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 17, 1911

A Mother's Influence on Boys

To make a boy into a pure man, a mother must do more than pray. She must live with him in the sense of comrade and closest friend. She must stand by him in time of temptation as the pilot sticks to the wheel when rapids are around. She must never desert him to go off to superintend outside duties, any more than the engineer deserts his post and goes into a baggage-car to read up engineering when his train is pounding across the country at forty miles an hour.