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American Minute: Mother’s Day

Posted On 14 May 2017
By : William Federer
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Tag: American Minute, Anna Jarvis, Boston, Civil War, civilization, Grafton, Julia Ward Howe, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Proclamation, mothers, Mothers' Day Work Clubs, Philadelphia, President Reagan, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, West Virginia, Will and Ariel Durant, William Ross Wallace, Woodrow Wilson

May 14, 2017

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Julia Ward Howe, American poet and author ( Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Mothers’ Day was held in Boston in 1872 at the suggestion of Julia Ward Howe, writer of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

But it was Anna Jarvis, daughter of a Methodist minister in Grafton, West Virginia, who made it a national event.

During the Civil War, Anna Jarvis’ mother organized Mothers’ Day Work Clubs to care for wounded soldiers, both Union and Confederate.

She raised money for medicine, inspected bottled milk, improved sanitation, and hired women to care for families where mothers suffered from tuberculosis.

In her mother’s honor, Anna Jarvis persuaded her church to set aside the 2nd Sunday in May, the anniversary of her mother’s death, as a day to appreciate all mothers.

Encouraged by the reception, Anna Jarvis organized it in Philadelphia, then began a letter-writing campaign to ministers, businessmen, and politicians to establish a national Mothers’ Day.

In response, on MAY 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first National Mothers’ Day as a

public expression of … love and reverence for the mothers of our country.

President Reagan said in his Mother’s Day Proclamation, 1986:

A Jewish saying sums it up:  ‘God could not be everywhere—so He created mothers.’

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world (wrote American poet William Ross Wallace, who died MAY 5, 1881).

This concept was echoed by historians Will and Ariel Durant in The Lessons of History, 1968:

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew;

if the transmission should be interrupted … civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

William Federer
About the Author
William Federer is the author of this series. Mr. Federer is a nationally known speaker, best-selling author, and president of Amerisearch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching America’s noble heritage. His AMERICAN MINUTE radio feature is broadcast daily across America and over the Internet. His Faith in History television airs on the TCT Network on stations across America and via DirectTV.
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