Hi, Marty,
I always enjoy reading The American Minute. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Rosie
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Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rocks the World"
American Minute
Happy Mothers Day -"The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules
the World."
Mothers' Day was held in Boston in 1872 at the suggestion of Julia Ward
Howe, writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
But it was Anna Jarvis, daughter of a Methodist minister in Grafton, West
Virginia, who made it a national event.
During the Civil War, Anna Jarvis' mother organized Mothers' Day Work Clubs
to care for wounded soldiers, both Union and Confederate.
She raised money for medicine, inspected bottled milk, improved sanitation
and hired women to care for families where mothers suffered from
tuberculosis.
In her mother's honor, Anna Jarvis persuaded her church to set aside the 2nd
Sunday in May, the anniversary of her mother's death, as a day to appreciate
all mothers.
Encouraged by the reception, Anna Jarvis organized it in Philadelphia, then
began a letter-writing campaign to ministers, businessmen and politicians to
establish a national Mothers' Day.
In response, on MAY 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first
National Mothers' Day as a
"public expression of...love and reverence for the mothers of our country."
President Reagan said in his Mother's Day Proclamation, 1986:
"A Jewish saying sums it up: 'God could not be everywhere - so He created
mothers.'"
Mothers have the role of imparting values into children, as American poet
William Ross Wallace wrote:
"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."
Dr. James Dobson addressed the National Religious Broadcasters, Feb. 16,
2002:
"If they can get control of children ... they can change the whole culture
in one generation."
This importance of this was echoed by historians Will and Ariel Durant in
The Lessons of History, 1968:
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each
generation anew;
if the transmission should be interrupted... civilization would die, and we
should be savages again."
The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy (2 Timothy 1:5):
"I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your
grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in
you also."
On February 3, 1983, at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President
Ronald Reagan stated:
"I have a very special old Bible. And alongside a verse in the Second Book
of Chronicles there are some words, handwritten, very faded by now. And
believe me, the person who wrote these words was an authority. Her name was
Nelle Wilson Reagan. She was my mother."
Ronald Reagan stated:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't
pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or
one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our
children's children what it was once like in the United States where men
were free.
