CARLYLE'S FATHER.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 146, 24 July 1880, Page 2

CARLYLE'S FATHER.

Thomas Carlylethus describes his lather: —1 think of nil the men I have ever known, my father was quite the remarkableat. Quit* a, farmer sort gf person, using vigilant thrift and careful industry, abiding by veracity and faith, and with an extraordinary insight into the very heart of things and man. I can rememher that, from my childhood, I was surprised, at his using ninny words of which I knew not the meaning; and even as I grew to manhood I was not a little puzzled by them, and supposed that they must be of his own coinage. Hut Inter, in ray blank letter reading I discovered that every one that I could recall was of the sound Saxon stotk. which had lain buried, yet fruitful withal, in the quick momory of the humbler sort of folk. He was* an elder of the kirk, and it was very pleasant to lee him in his daily and weekly relation with the minister of the parish. They had been friends from youth. That parish minister was the first one who ever taught me Litin. The' last time I ever law my father tfa* on my journey from Craigeniputtock to London. I was. on my way to thin modern Babylon, with a manuscript in my hand, " Sartor Rcaartus " by name, which I wished to get into print. I came up, on my fool's errand, and I taw my father no more, for I had not been in town many days when tidings came that he was dead. He had gone to bed at night an well as usual, it teemed ; hut they found in the raonviu* ttiaf. he had passed from the realm of sleep to that of day. It. waa a fit end for such a life as his nad been. He waa • man into the four corner* of whose home there had •hined through the years of hie pilgrimage, by dav and by night, the light of the glory of Clod. Like Enoch of old, he had walked with God ; and at laat he was for God took him.—Hand «ul Ht,„rt, i