Wear a Carnation for Mother's Sake

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WEAR A CARNATION FOR MOTHER'S SAKE MOTHER'S DAY MAY 10, 1914 Y. M. C. A. PORTLAND, OREGON "Our Mothers" IF F I speak with the spirit of a true son and of my mother and do not speak of her in love, I am be- come as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal, and if I have all ability and all knowledge and if I have money enough to buy mansions and have not love for my mother, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and if I give my body to be burned and do not love my mother, it profiteth me nothing. Mother suffereth long and is kind. Mother envieth not. Mother vaunteth not herself. She is not puffed up. Mother does not behave herself unseemly; seeketh. not her own, she is not easily provoked, tak- eth no account of evil, rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth. Mother beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Mother never faileth; where there be misun- derstandings, they shall be done away; where there shall be unjust criticism, that shall cease; where there even be wrong done that shall be forgiven. For we know only in part and judge in part, but with perfect love which is to come, then all differences shall be done away. When I was a child I spoke as a child, I acted as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I am older, I will put away childish things, for when I look face to face at my mother's love, I know that it is the love of My Mother. And choosing now, between my friends, my business and my mother's love, I am sure that the greatest of these is my Mother's Love. Adapted from I Cor. xiii. Carnation Given to Holder of this Card To be Presented for Admission

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RFD WORLD'S PANAMA- 7914 12.30.2M O PACIFIC 1915 ORTL Was Joel Purchare Grand Rapidſ Mich. #b₁ نه pun