Ministers and (Their) Mothers* (1)

Ministers' mothers have a keen interest in their minister sons. A minister's believing mother has her son in her heart and a special interest in the ministry, its challenges, joys, sorrows. For that reason, you will often find ministers' mothers in the audience of church functions, especially seminary functions: graduation exercises, synodical examinations, even convocation exercises. I dare guess that there are ministers' mothers here tonight, and mothers of the seminary students -- who are...