Remember 'WHY' Mothers Day!!!!!

Mother's Day was founded as a call for
peace. Julia Ward Howe, who also wrote the Battle Hymn
of the Republic" wrote the call for women to drop
everything to work for peace in 1870.


Julia Ward Howe: Beyond the Battle Hymn of the Republic-Mother's Day and Peace



Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
THE GREAT AND GENERAL INTERESTS OF PEACE

ARISE THEN...WOMEN OF THIS DAY!
Arise, all women who have hearts!

Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant
agencies,

Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with
carnage,
For caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity,
mercy and patience.

We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up
with Our own.

It says: "Disarm! Disarm!

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and
commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to
the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...

Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress,
not of Caesar,
But of God -

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of
nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most
convenient

And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different
nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

THE GREAT AND GENERAL INTERESTS OF PEACE