From: Reformation21 by Jim McCarthy
In remembrance of his late mother, the 19th century Southern Presbyterian B.M. Palmer wrote, “Ah! We have but one mother on earth. Who can replace her in our thought? She who bore us in the walls of her flesh, in the strange community of a dual life; she who nourished us in feeble infancy from her own substance; she whose smile woke us to the first response of love: she whose constant sympathy assuaged the sorrows of childhood and whose guardian providence shielded from the snares of opening adulthood: she to whom was paid the homage of youthful hearts, mounting to such lower worship as may be given to a mortal…Who that looks back upon the critical passages of life, will not bless God for the gift of a pious mother- feeling that her hand has plucked them from ruin?”
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