author - "Alexander F. Chamberlain"

"I love God and every little child."CHAPTER II. THE CHILD'S TRIBUTE TO THE MOTHER. A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.--English Proverb. The first poet, the first priest, was the first mother.The first empire was a woman and her children.--_O. T. Mason_. When society, under the guidance of the "fathers of the church," wentalmost to destruction in the dark ages, it was the "mothers of thepeople" who saved it and set it going on the new right