Mother's Influence

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 15, 1906

Mother's Influence

The chaplain of a prison once stated that one of the most distressing experiences of his prison life was with a murderer sentenced to death. The man remained stolid and unmoved by any appeal to his moral sentiment or to his conscience. As the chaplain bade him farewell at his execution, he said, “I’ll tell you why you couldn’t do nothin’ for me. Other men’s mothers taught them religion when they were little. My mother was a drunken thief!”

God puts a child’s mind, like a white scroll, into the mother’s hand. He alone fully knows what she writes there.—Selected.