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Show Carlyle's Good Mother . Carlyle once wrote these words of his mother's religious Influence over him as a boy, and of the purity and nobility of her Christian character: "My kind mother did me one altogeth. er invaluable service. She taught me, less indeed by word than by act and daily reverent habitude, her own simple version of the Christian faith. My mother, with a true woman's heart, and fine though uncultivated sense, waB in the strictest acceptance religious. The highest whom I knev on earth I saw bowed down with awe unspeakable, before a Higher One in heaven, especially , In infancy, reach inward to the very core of your being; be-ing; mysteriously does a Holy of Holies Ho-lies build itself into visibility in the mysterious depths, and reverence, the dlvinest in man, springs forth undying undy-ing from its mean development of fear." , |