“Emerson said: ‘Men are what their mothers make them.’ They are what their
mothers make them, and if the mothers of today were true to their trust,
then they could send their boys to college and need not be afraid of them
coming back infidels, like many of them do. There is no power on earth
that can lift to heaven or shove to hell like the touch of a mother’s
hand. Everywhere men have been brought back from the valley of the shadow
of death simply by the touch of mother’s hand.”