The Mother's Reward

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 29, 1904

The Mother's Reward

A MOTHER in the household is called to a service of self-sacrifice. She has given of her life in the birth of her children. While they are young, she gives constantly of her time, thought, and strength to their needs. She bears patiently their complaints, and even injuries. As they grow older, she carries a heart-burden for them, and never ceases to be solicitous for their welfare. There is no love so pure and devoted as the disciplined love of a mother. Many women dislike motherhood on account of its confinement and self-sacrifices. It has, however, its peculiar blessing and reward. A mother has a blessing of God in herself. She is made perfect in moral and spiritual beauty by her self-sacrificing service. She might have become naturally a vain, hard, proud queen of society, but has gained humility, patience, gentleness, and other graces that make her a saint. Why do all children rise up to praise their mothers as the best women in the world? Motherhood has clothed her with peculiar grace. No one can receive, or expect to receive, such reverential and devoted love as a mother. All her brooding watchful, self-denying love comes back to her, and her memory is precious. There is peculiar tenderness in the esteem and love of children as they begin to realize and appreciate what a mother has done in life for them. Her love is rewarded in kind, in good measure, pressed down and running over.—The Watchman.