Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Mother's Day Talk 2006

 

Mother’s Day Talk 2006 Douglas Poll Ridge

On important occasions when it is appropriate to honor important people we sometimes quote from the 44th chapter of Ecclesiasticus which says “Let us now praise famous men and our fathers who begat us.” I would like to take as my text a similar passage that is not in the scriptures but should be, “Let us now praise famous women and our mothers who gave us birth.”