IN LOVE WITH MOTHER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 24, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 21.

IN LOVE WITH MOTHER.

Of all the love affairs in the world, none can surpass the true love of a big boy for his mother. It is pure and noble, honorable in the highest degree to both.

We do not mean merely a dutiful affection. We mean a love which makes a boy gallant and courteous to his mother, saying to everybody plainly that he is fairly in love with her.

Next to the love of a husband, nothing so crowns a woman's life with honor as this second love, this devotion of a son to her. And we never knew a boy to "turn out" badly, in his conflict with life, who began by falling in love with his mother.

Any man may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl, and the man who is gallant with the girl may cruelly neglect the worn and weary wife.

But the boy who is a lover of his mother in her middle-age is a true knight, who will love his wife as much in the sere-leaved autumn as he did in the daisied springtime.—New Zealand Joyful News.