_Father Gives up but Mother Doesn’t._
“Fathers often give up. The old man often goes to boozing, becomes
dissipated, takes a dose of poison and commits suicide, but the mother
will stand by the home and keep the little band together if she has to
manicure her fingernails over a washboard to do it. If men had half as
much grit as the women, there would be different stories written about
a good many homes. Look at her work! It is the greatest in the world;
in its far-reaching importance it is transcendently above everything in
the universe—her task in molding hearts and lives and shaping character.
If you want to find greatness, don’t go toward the throne; go to the
cradle, and the nearer you get to the cradle, the nearer to greatness.
The launching of a boy or girl to live for Christ is greater work than to
launch a battleship.”