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title: 'A Christmas Talk with Mothers'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1865-11-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Children and Youth'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Personal Piety'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 127'
- 'Psalms 128'
- '1 Samuel 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/terhune-1865-a-christmas-talk-with-mothers
---

# A Christmas Talk with Mothers

1865 Christmas essay urging mothers to cherish motherhood and large families, criticizing fashionable disdain for many children and affirming babies' rights and maternal duty.

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