and moms of the future.
To those who comfort with a mother's hand,
we thank you.
To those who encourage with a mother's praise,
we applaid uou.
To those who love with a mother's heart,
we honor you--
not just on Mother's Day...always.
(C) Hallmark
Mother's Day Proclamation 1870 by Julia Ward Howe
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For careesses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another countyr
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet forst, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God--
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
the ambicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general intersts of peace.