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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Jul 23, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 30.

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TO MOTHERS.

By Mrs. P. Alderman

MRS. P. ALDERMAN.
Fond mother, dost thou understand There is committed to thy hand A work of more essential worth Than all the jewels of the earth? Or have you learned, and do you know, How destinies of mortals grow? The character that's shaped by thee, Honored of God himself may be. Thy influence, a thing sublime, Is bounded not by years of time.
He tells us we may wisdom ask For every labor, every task. Who, as a mother, needs to come For wisdom to the Holy One, To mold a little mortal mind, That it may Christ and heaven find? Then count thy child a sacred trust. God make thee faithful, wise, and just. Give loving precept, line on line— There is no greater work than thine.