MOTHERS' DAY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20215, 18 April 1931, Page 19

MOTHERS' DAY.

TO TQ9 ZDl?qa Of XHK PBE3O. Sir, —Mrs Houston in championing Mothering Sunday constantly assumes that if a uniform date obtained thp Anglicans will be asked to surrender .their day. This, suggestion, bo far, has not to my knowledge been mooted in New Zealand, so "why protect what is not assailed? I cheerfully-accept Houston s correction about the concomitants (not ft commitments >T ) to Mothering Sunday. My admission, however, is swallowed up in surprise. Then Mothering Sunilay, tqo, it| greatly Huge quantities of calces and flowers are Bold, ■ but pandy is taboo. Does tlje mpther £eart gro'*v too old to appreciate a few • sweets!' Even in controversy ana discussion sweetness and may bp valuable. Bqt if, on Wis Houston's ad--mission, tradespeople largely commercialise her day,<why does' she serve'np to the Christchurch public the ridicule of the "Daily Mail" at tradesmen's vagaries regarding Mothers? Day* I, There is a "saying that "Consistency is a jewel," tut perhaps the words of Emerson are preferred: f'A foolish consistent is _ "the hobgoblin of little minds." . ' , . _ , _ Does' Mrs Houston m waking her statement that,, on. acpount of the fight she and her 1 friends put up, 'f Great Britain retains "her day, 1 ' requireus to Thieve ttfpHhid refer* to all of the Ohurehes of Great Britain. I of seeond Sunday in May is largely observed. If I am' not mistaken; the Anglican churches now are greatly - qutnifinbered. ' Perhaps .she | means that the Anglican churches in Great Britain retain fhe day. Probably air New; interested m this ■ Hjweaitotj'- the Church of EnalancL ate content with any date if, tip jSneintentida of the dayptwaUs. Mrs Houston, "we'hope, will Buffer the , opinion tbat-soing of her.statements are avers that Mother: | ing Suii& has been held for , , centuries." Probably. °» r ,. E X?» Catholic friends caq P?pply the dat ?' Her statement, also, thatT the only obsct*v« of the American date to com: mercialise it" cannotlbe allowed. When fflfothers? Day" started, tbe adoption of the JKhite carnation ana the s|£gan «{lu. the month of May eomes Mothers? DayU.had no connexion with commer t oial proi«gariaft, iwi to make the above statement' 10, &o say the, least' an un " eomslufiop, the last thing the would desire is a lengthened, or "controversy, on this subject. -Sbose not iipgUean, if not included in will no sense ofloes. I'lt may be well, however, to rememl»er the words of the great 'Jin unity; , ip- ]h| Mvty Algo that f f inclusion *' - and not exclusion is the watchword of the Kingwow. I - \ J Bp. 41bann, April 17th, JB3l. i TQ fgf Sijc.rrThe^. *£ JJSr ijrho/yiU be gfateful tq |fp PPP*JP* for her ".letter . poipting but" th£ difference betwegA Sunday and Day. |t i 8 ■iprtonate'tW |ifi!sm>?P Y? d ~ tied tQ.'the latter, 4.$ the saifle; tjme, lajt fair to Chrfrch" & IJngfanH' t'P tffa. f»P. honpjrad -custom fpr one of recent in- 1 |itu|on ftif. &P "ttY*- * nd With regard tq, (the numerical Utrengtb "of' thft yfcriotts rewgjpua IMi refJred tp m'tbe &®r Vtpn %9 » ITATRNfIfiS.

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