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I once was an equally complete type of the clerical slave slave to conscience, slave to humble-mindedness, slave to my rector as soon as I knew him. "St. Francis of Assisi was the character I worshiped. I strove after simple goodness. I desired no glories of this world, no praises of men. I did not wish to be clever or to shine, but only to do my duty to my fellow-men, and so toward God.
On the first page, in the hand-writing of that beloved mother, was registered the day of her marriage, and underneath the births of her several children, with a short and thanksgiving prayer affixed to each; a little lower down came a mournful register, the dates and manner of her sons' deaths; but the Christian spirit that had taught her words and prayers of gratitude, had been with her in the time of trouble; the passages were penned in true humility and humble-mindedness, though the blisterings of many tears remained upon the paper.
His self-abasement was neither tinctured with affectation, nor with the pride of humility. His humble-mindedness appeared to arise form his intimate communion with Heaven. In daily communion with God, he received a daily lesson of deeper and deeper humility.
"We know very well, Doctor, that if we should accept this kindness we might do it in a spirit of proper and commendable a humble-mindedness. But it isn't mere pride that makes us insist." "No?" asked the Doctor, cruelly. "What is it else?"
She believed herself to be cold always a dangerous assumption on the part of a woman, and apt to prove a broken reed in emergency. Charles knew her better than she knew herself. Her pride and unconscious humble-mindedness, her frankness with its underlying reserve, spoke of a strong nature, slow, perhaps, but earnest, constant, and, once roused, capable of deep attachment.
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