A MOTHER NEVER FORGETS.

New Zealand Tablet, 2 October 1919, Page 45

A MOTHER NEVER FORGETS.

Washington Irving must have known the full and abiding faith of the true mother heart when ho wrote: “A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all;' in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world’s condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that a child may turn from his evil ways and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never bo brought to think him all unworthy. “The instruction received at the mother’s knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never entirely effaced from the soul.”