Many a time, when he finds me alone, he gives me some spiritual reading, or says aloud some prayers.

Every time I strike, he breathes an aspiration of love and thanksgiving.

In short, we have found our glorious mission in our new birth.

We are both apostles: I represent Time; he preaches of Eternity." There can be little doubt, however, that the chief formative influence in the Hecker household was that which came directly through the mother.

Young as she was when an unduly heavy share of the domestic burdens fell to her portion, she took it up with courage and bore it with dignity and fidelity.