A Mother's Influence

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 21, 1878

A Mother's Influence.

How touching the tribute of the Hon. T. H. Benton, to his mother's influence:—

"My mother asked me never to use tobacco, and I have never touched it from that time to the present day; she asked me not to game, and I have never gambled, and I cannot tell who is winning and who is losing in games that can be played. She admonished me, too, against wine drinking; and whatever capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may attain in life, I attribute to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. When I was seven years of age, she asked me not to drink, and then I made a resolution of total abstinence, at a time when I was sole constituent member of my own body, and that I have adhered to it through time, I owe to my mother."

A Mother's Influence.*

A Mother's Influence.