Mother's Day

Pastor Gary · 05-13-2007, 12:19 PM

Most countries of the world have a special day set aside to honor Mothers. The second Sunday in May is by far, the most widely used day for honoring Mothers and on this day, May 13 this year, sons, daughters and husbands in 59 countries are all honoring Mom's.

To all Mom's worldwide - have a very special day. But we would also like to honor a "very special Mom" named Mary, today, in memorium, for without her, Our Savior, Jesus Christ, would not have been born...

Boanerges · 05-13-2007, 02:57 PM

She was indeed priviledged to be the "jar" thru which the King came to earth- a real honor for a little jewish girl- also alot of pain to raise a child and watch Him go thru what He did on our behalf.

Preacher · 05-13-2007, 05:48 PM

Anna Jarvis Elementary School was named in honor of Miss Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mother's Day. She was born at Webster in Taylor County on May 1, 1864. Miss Jarvis received her early education in the schools of Grafton. Anna's mother, Mrs. Anna M. Jarvis, had been instrumental in developing "Mothers Friendship Day" as part of the healing process of the Civil War. Miss Jarvis wanted a day set aside to honor all mothers, living and dead.

The first offical Mother's Day service was held at 10:00 A.M. in Andrews Methodist Church on May 10, 1908. This beautiful, historic church, built in 1873, is located on Main Street, in downtown Grafton, West Virginia. The church is now called the International Mother's Day Shrine and can be visited April through October, Monday - Friday from 9:30-3:30. A special Mother's Day Service is held each year to honor Miss Anna Jarvis and all mothers.

Later on Anna tried to have the holiday revoked because she felt greeting card companies and flower companies were taking undue advantage of the holiday to make money, instead of it's original intention of honoring Mothers.

I have been to her home and to the Church in Grafton. Needless to say this holiday is a very big deal in these parts.

Boanerges · 05-13-2007, 06:47 PM

Interesting Preacher- but it's hard to belive someone tried to turn it into a bussiness- LOL

AmericanAngel · 05-13-2007, 07:13 PM

Thanks to a mother who packed a young boy's lunch not knowing that by doing this usual everyday task would turn out to be apart of a miracle. Jesus used that young boy's lunch that his mother made that day. That mother became part of a miracle to feed many young boy's and girls and Mothers and Fathers!
Thankyou Moms for your service in the kingdom!

Preacher · 05-13-2007, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Boanerges

Interesting Preacher- but it's hard to belive someone tried to turn it into a bussiness- LOL

She tried unsuccessfully, until her dying day to have it removed.

Here's some more info:

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In 1909 Mother’s Day services were held in 46 states plus Canada and Mexico. Anna Jarvis gave up her daytime job to work full time writing letters to politicians, clergy members, business leaders, women’s clubs and anyone else she thought might have some influence. She was able to enlist the World’s Sunday School Association in her lobbying campaign, a key factor in convincing legislators to support the holiday. In 1912 West Virginia became the first state to adopt an official Mother’s Day. In 1914 the US Congress passed a joint resolution, and President Woodrow Wilson signed it, establishing Mother’s Day, emphasizing women’s role in the family (not as activists in the public arena, as Howe’s Mother’s Day had been).

Despite her success, Anna Jarvis was becoming increasingly unhappy about the commercialism that came to be associated with the holiday. She and the florist industry became bitter adversaries. "I wanted it to be a day of sentiment" she said, "not of profit." She also opposed the use of greeting cards, which she felt were "a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write."

In 1923 Anna Jarvis filed suit against New York Governor, Al Smith, over a Mother’s Day celebration. When the court threw the suit out, she began a public protest and was arrested for disturbing the peace. In 1931 she criticized Eleanor Roosevelt for her work with a Mother’s Day committee that was not her own committee. In the 1930s, the US Postal Service announced a Mother’s Day stamp with the image of Whistler’s Mother and a vase of white carnations. Anna Jarvis, with all the zeal of hatchet bearing Carrie Nation, campaigned against the stamp. She persuaded President Roosevelt to remove the words, Mother’s Day, but not the white carnations. Also at this time, Jarvis disrupted a meeting of the American War Mothers, protesting their sale of white carnations for Mother’s Day and was removed by the police!

To her dismay, Mother’s Day remains one of the best sale days in the year for florists. Anna Jarvis never became a mother herself and died in 1948, blind and penniless. At the end of her life she had been confined to a nursing home. The bills, unbeknownst to her, were paid by the Florist’s Exchange! She was buried next to her mother in a cemetery in the Philadelphia area.

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