Unsonly

Who fancies for one instant that Our Lord could be unsonly? Who could fancy that He was not a real, but, on the contrary, a bogus, a spurious Son or a bare sketch of a Son? Who can harbor such an irreverent thought as to fancy Our Lord denied, in the least, the Son’s adequate tribute of love, respect, obedience and assistance to His Mother? And what a tribute! for, who knew better than Jesus the privations, the sacrifices, the devotion and, consequently, the merits of Mary, His sweet Mother? Who could be swifter than He, the world’s Exemplar, to repay all as a grateful and worthy Son?

Sparse mementoes—a baby’s shoe, a formal and unsonly letter, and a sad poem—which were found in the mother’s room after her death Thursday night, under an automobile, show the tenacity with which she clung to this one tie.

Now even this was not for the time enough to convert an unsonly son.

And the boy did not feel like he wanted to do such an unsonly deed as to spend his dad’s money to go up in an airship against his dad’s wishes.

I am sorry, Mother, if my leavetaking appeared unsonly and ungrateful, but should I have listened to you, at home I would be at this very hour, and probably I wuold^([sic]) have never known what lay outside the very realm of my own backyard, but as it is now, I am very thankful that you were kind enough to let me accompany the Cap’n on this voyage.

Rather, he charges that the apostasy of his son is so great that it disturbs the "Ghost" of his deceased mother, who fears that her son's unsonly disloyalty will threaten the "white fame" of the reputation for fidelity she now enjoys.

‘Indeed, if the ruler does not rule and the minister does not minister, if fathers are unfatherly and sons unsonly, even if there is grain would I get to eat it?’

For that's who constituted this particular destructive force that was now doing such a good job of altering the scenery - our two fathers, who, while well within sight were well out of earshot of any disrespectful or unsonly jibes.