Faith Of Our Mothers: A Women's History Month Tribute

 

"Godly womanhood...the very phrase sounds strange in our ears.
We never hear it now.  We hear about every other type of women:
beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women,
talented women, divorced women.  But so seldom do we hear of godly women-
or of a godly man either, for that matter.

We believe women come to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than
 anyplace else.  It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss America.
It is a greater achievement to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a
 second-rate novel filled with filth.  It is a far, far better thing in the realms of morals
to be old-fashioned, then to be ultra-modern.  

The world has enough women who know how to be smart.  It needs women who
are willing to be simple.  The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant.
It needs some who will be brave.  The world has enough women who are popular.
It needs more who are pure.  We need women, and men, too, who would
rather be morally right than socially correct."

-Reverend Peter Marshall Sr.
(1902-1949)
Scottish-American preacher
Twice appointed Chaplain of the United States Senate

Pilgrim Mother Monument*
Plymouth, Massachusetts 

Photograph courtesy/ Flickr

Faith of our mothers, living still

In cradle song and bedtime prayer;

In nursey lore and fireside love,

Thy presence still pervades the air:

Faith of our mothers, living faith!

We will be true to thee till death.

Faith of our mothers, loving faith,

Fount of our childhood's trust and grace,

Oh, may thy consecration prove

Source of a finer, nobler race;

Faith of our mothers, loving faith,

We will be true to thee till death.

Faith of our mothers, guiding faith,

For youthful longing, youthful doubt,

How blurred our vision, blind our way,

Thy providential care without:

Faith of our mothers, guiding faith,

We will be true to thee till death.

Faith of our mother, Christian faith,

Is truth beyond our stumbling creeds,

Still serve the home and save the Church,

And breathe thy spirit through our deeds:

Faith of our mothers, Christian faith!

We will be true to thee till death.

"Faith Of Our Mothers"

(1920)

Arthur Bardwell Patten

(1864-1952)
American Congregational minister
and hymn writer

*Behind this statue, which honors the brave women who
sailed to the new world onboard the Mayflower, is this inscription:

 "They brought up their families in sturdy virtue and
 a living faith in God without which nations perish."