MOTHERHOOD.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 234, 18 December 1914, Page 9

MOTHERHOOD.

A partnership with God i> Mother hood; What purity, what strength, what self-control, What love, what wisdom, should be long to her Who helps God's fashion ar immortal soul. We aic beginning to realise that all reforms must begin before the cradle, in the pre-natal life. Mothers are waking up to the extreme importance of care and system in the rearing of their children, the future men and women. Dr. Albert Wilson has shown by in vestigation that want of nutrition fosters an evil nature. Where the body is stunted, the brain will be even leas nourished, the rule being, Body first, Brain alter. Problems of “unemployables” and “degenerates” are largely the result of the neglect of child life 111 the past. Children have a right to be born healthy, and the right to the care and nourishment necessary for the proper development of body and mind. It belongs to parenthood to help to prepare a worthy temple for an immortal soul. Let mothers, and prospective mothers, strive to impress upon themselves and others in the duties and responsibilities of motherhood. Children should be taught by their parents to keep themselves pure and in honour.