What blessings shall we ask for the mothers of the world? What do we need for ourselves? Unselfish love, infinite patience, wisdom and insight, tact and sympathy, health to bear the daily strain, quiet nerves, a sense of humor that smooths rough places, a sweet, strong cheerfulness, a likeness to Christ that shall be reflected in the lives of all the members of the household. “According to the riches of His grace,” He is waiting to bestow His blessings on the mother hearts waiting here, before Him, and through their intercession, on the mother hearts of the world.
What blessings shall we ask for the children of the world? The same that we ask for our own as we kneel at their bedside, and our eyes are dim with tears of yearning love, while we pray that our darlings may be kept from harm and accident, from all soul stains, that they may “grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man.” Is there any blessing you ask for your boy and girl that is not needed by the other children of the world?
“Prayer is cheap,” some say, “it costs nothing to say a prayer for missions.” Real prayer is not cheap,—it costs the deepest, strongest thought one can expend; it costs time; it costs the willingness to help to answer one’s own prayers in terms of interest and gifts and service. In Christ’s name, then, let us pray, and let us not rest nor be satisfied until every mother in the world, clasping her child to her bosom, is truly a holy mother, and every little child is a holy child.
INDEX
- Addams, Miss Jane, p. [92].
- “Age of the Child,” p. [4].
- American children at work, pp. [248], [251], [252].
- Anti-foot-binding movement, p. [33].
- Applied Christianity, p. [17].
- Bathing, pp. [22], [23].
- Bible, place of the child in, p. [197];
- Bible reading, pp. [41], [82], [128], [172], [216], [256], [261].
- Bibliography, pp. [42], [84], [128], [173], [218], [257].
- Blind children, pp. [118], [120].
- Bunker, Alonzo, p. [6].
- Burma, a home in, p. [55].
- Burma, Christian children in, p. [242].
- Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson, p. [9].
- Caste, India, p. [213].
- Childbirth, China, p. [39];
- Child labor, among Bedouins, p. [104];
- Child marriage, India, pp. [68]–[72], [79].
- Child slavery, pp. [107]–[110].
- Child training, Persia, pp. [58], [59].
- Child wives, Persia, p. [81];
- India, p. [10].
- Child welfare agencies, p. [5].
- Child at worship, Thibet, p. [180];
- Children, of India, needs of, p. [3];
- Children’s pavilion, Beirut, p. [38].
- China’s awakening, p. [227].
- Chinese, mother ideal, p. [57];
- Christ needs the children, p. [223].
- Christianity, in the home, p. [78];
- place of child in, p. [263].
- Christmas, in India, p. [264];
- in Japan, p. [265].
- Clothing, p. [23]–[24].
- Cochran, Mrs. James, p. [21].
- Confucianism, attitude towards girls, p. [21];
- Conservation of human resources, p. [8].
- Contagious diseases, pp. [34]–[37].
- Curtis, Wm. E., p. [235].
- Crowther, Bishop Samuel A., pp. [237]–[239].
- Dale, Mrs. G. F., p. [38].
- Deaf and Dumb children, pp. [118], [119].
- Defective and dependent children, pp. [110]–[124].
- Death of children, pp. [196], [197].
- Discipline, lack of, p. [58].
- Devine, Dr. E. T., pp. [6], [31], [52].
- Dolls, in Central Africa, p. [126].
- Dying child’s doll, pp. [101]–[103].
- Education, Africa, pp. [170], [171];
- divergent views on, pp. [136]–[138];
- Japan, pp. [139], [140];
- China, p. [141];
- India, pp. [141], [142];
- Persia, pp. [142]–[144], [154], [234];
- Turkey, pp. [142]–[144];
- Siam, pp. [168], [169];
- extent of American Missionary, pp. [163], [164];
- among backward nations, pp. [151]–[153];
- of future mothers, p. [156].
- Egypt, Lord Cromer on, p. [155].
- Eugenics, pp. [9]–[11].
- Evil Eye, pp. [15]–[16].
- Evil spirits, p. [17].
- Exner, Dr., p. [28].