A Mother’s Threefold Duty

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 31, 1907

A Mother’s Threefold Duty

Some people moan and groan over their toils or troubles, and sometimes over trifles. A lady not yet old used some language the implication of which was that she might as well be dead as alive. A sage happened to hear her remarks, and said to her: “Madam, you are a mother and a grandmother; those are two most important functions; so long as you can fill them, you should not wish your life to be ended.” A few minutes afterward as the sage was taking his departure, he happened to hear her say that she had just visited her mother. He returned and added: “You not only ought to live and rejoice to live and fill the parts of mother and grandmother, but you still have a daughter’s part to perform, which will never cease to be an obligation while your mother lives.”