In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day. This truly is both fitting and proper to do so. It is a honor to have my mother here for Mother's Day. Our family will enjoy a day of honoring both her and April as two godly ladies and two great mothers.
Thank God for a mother who will care for her family. A college graduate was asked which books had helped him most thus far in life. "That's easy," he said, "Mom's cookbook and Dad's checkbook!" Every meal and every detail done around the home is an act of love from a mother who sees the great responsibility of her place in the home given by God. Mothers do not let the cares of the world choke out the great priority of your husband, children, and home.
Thank God for mothers who love righteousness and hate evil. The first "First Lady" to go counter to the social custom of serving champagne and other wines at formal White House functions was Lucy Webb Hayes, the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes. President Hayes refused to serve any alcoholic beverages in the White House as the 19th President from 1877-1881. (By the way, he was from Ohio.) Lucy Hayes said, "I have young sons who have never tasted liquor. They shall not receive from my hand, or with the sanction that its use in my family would give, their taste of what might prove their ruin. What I wish for my own sons, I must do for the sons of our mothers!" May there be more mothers and fathers with such devotion to what is right. To each mother, thank you for all you do.