A Good Mother | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 28, 1873

A Good Mother.

Sometimes one hears said of a good wife and mother that “she’s a regular home body.” The phrase is simple, but what a world of ennobling qualities it indicates, and what a universe of frivolities it excludes. The matronly home body is indeed “Heaven’s best gift to man.” Dashing ladies, whose mission it is to set the fashions, won’t you look in upon your gentle sister as she sits in her well-ordered nursery, making the children happy with her presence? Note how she adjusts their little difficulties, and admonishes, encourages, instructs, amuses them as the case may require. Do you think any nurse-maid could produce such harmony in their little circle? Is she not an enchantress? Verily, yes, and her charm is “love stronger than death” for those sweet young faces, where you may see her smiles and frowns (though she seldom has occasion to frown) reflected in glee and sorrow like sunlight and cloud shadow in a quiet pool. What she is, she will teach her daughters to be; and blessed are the sons that have such a mother.