MOTHERS’ DAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 133, 7 May 1932, Page 8

MOTHERS’ DAY.

Y.M.C.A. To-morrow will bo Mothers’ Day, and all over the world, wherever the Y.M.C.A. triangle is established, the day will be reverenty observed. At the local institution, preparations are being made in the spacious gymnasium to hold a mass meeting for men and boys, to commemorate “Mother,” commencing at 3 p.m. sharp. Rev. G. T. Brown will deliver a special address and a bright service is being arranged. Rudyard Kipling, many years ago, expressed with impressive power the unescapable quality of mother love in his dramatic verse:

If I were hung on the highest hill Mother O’ Mine, Mother O’ Mino 1 1 know whose love wobld follow me still Mother O’ Mine, Mother O’ Mine ! Tho history of every land and every age bears testimony of these noble words. How intangible mother lovo it! Mothers’ Day does not mean that she should bo remembered only one day in 365, but that men everywhere unite on one particular day to pay tribute to the mother of men. It is tho least a man can da.