---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Parker, Aubray
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 13
number: 3
published: 1910-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Parker, Aubray, "Mother’s Love," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 3 (January 1910): 219.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1303unse
start_page: 219
end_page: 219
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse
  publication_year: 1910
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Mother’s Love


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A Mother's Love.
BY AUBRAY PARKER.

Who can guess the greatness of a mother's love? The depths
of   it    no one can plumb.            The young mother                is   conscious of a
strange stir in her heart which makes it pulse with gladness.                                It

is   the birth of the mother-love; and that love is as lasting as life:
it is   eternal.
If,   in the course of      a mother's life, one of her loved ones is
laid at rest, and she has to leave                 it   there in the little churchyard,
no matter how far from that place she may wander, even to earth's
farthest point, that little mound which marks the resting-place of
her dear one will prove an unfailing magnet to draw her heart to
that spot;          because the tendrils           of that       life   departed are     still

wound rouud her mother heart, and are vital bonds.
How powerful is a mother's love! Many a young man has
held in         his heart     the    knowledge of          his    mother's     love,   and   it

has been that and that alone, which has kept his feet in the path
of right.
Mothers are the makers of the world's heroes.
We are often discovering new genius and greatness in un-
thought of circles.            But it   is   not    new genius          or   new greatness
that      we     find,   but obscure greatness and genius which is not new
because         it is   just found out.      Greatness has been the cherished
ambition of many a mother's heart, not for                          herself,   but for her
children.          A mother, when on her way from England to America,
was asked her reason for going, and she answered, "To raise gov-
ernors for them."  She prophesied truly, for three of her sons
were indeed governors.
When Napoleon was exiled in St. Helena he declared: "My