THAT SWEET WORD “MOTHER.”

New Zealand Tablet, 18 August 1921, Page 45

THAT SWEET WORD “MOTHER.”

Lord Macaulay pays the following beautiful tribute to his mother: “Children, look in those eyes; listen to that dear voice; notice the feeling of even a single touch bestowed upon you by that hand; make much of it while yet you have that most precious of all good gifts, a loving mother. Read the unfathomable love in those eyes, the kind anxiety of that touch and look, however slight your pain. In after life you may have friends, but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows. Often do I sigh, in the struggles with the hard, uncaring world, for the sweet, deep security I felt, when of an evening, nestling in her bosom, I listened to some quiet tale suitable to my age read in her untiring voice. Never can I forget her sweet glance cast upon me when I appeared asleep.”