Modern Motherhood
In a Sermon in the mid 1900’s, Peter Marshall encapsulates many of the challenges of being a mother. The sermon was entitled “Keepers of the Springs” and was preached to his Presbyterian church in Washington D. C. Peter Marshall was also an influential chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Here is a brief but powerful excerpt from that sermon:
“The challenge of (modern day) motherhood is as old as motherhood itself. Although the average American mother has advantages that pioneer women never knew- material advantages: education, culture, advances made by science and medicine, although the modern American mother knows a great deal more about sterilization, diet, health, calories, germs, drugs, medicines, and vitamins than her mother did, there is one subject about which she does not know as much- and that is God.
The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge- that of being a godly women. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every kind of women- beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women, but so seldom do we hear of a godly woman or of a godly man, for that matter.
It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than Miss America. It is a greater thing to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second rate novel filled with filth… We need women, and men, too, who would rather be Biblically right than socially correct.”
Because of grace,
Tim
