Inspiration

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the forward: he that keeps his soul shall be far from them. Train up a child in the way he should: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.  (Proverbs 22:4-6)

The lessons learned at his mother's side could not be forgotten. They were a shield from the pride, the infidelity, and the vice that flourished amid the splendor of the court.

How far reaching in its results was the influence of that one Hebrew woman, and she an exile and a slave! The whole future life of Moses, the great mission which he fulfilled as the leader of Israel, testifies to the importance of the work of the Christian mother. There is no other work that can equal this. To a very great extent the mother holds in her own hands the destiny of her children....She is sowing seed that will spring up and bear fruit, either for good or for evil. She has not to paint a form of beauty upon the canvas or to chisel it from marble, but to impress upon a human soul the image of the Devine.

Wendell S.Johnson