For Altar and For Hearth Lutheran Wisdom for Church and Home

Motherhood

1921 Carl Manthey-Zorn Northwestern Publishing House

Prevention of Pregnancy

How can such hearts be graced with faith and fear of the Lord and with the mind of a child of God? How can God’s blessing rest upon such a home? We verily believe that God’s wrath hovers there.

1921 Carl Manthey-Zorn Concordia Publishing House

The Blessed Vocation of Motherhood

What a blessed thing to be a wife and mother! This is a vocation that is well-pleasing unto God, for God has instituted the estate of matrimony and ordained all that it comprises.