It was also the result of her ever-increasing spirituality of nature.

This took no shape of creed, worship, or what the world's common consent calls religion.

Most of the words spoken by the teachers of churches repelled Mercy by their monotonous iteration of the letter which killeth.

But her realization of the solemn significance of the great fact of being alive deepened every hour; her tenderness, her sense of brotherhood to every human being, and her sense of the actual presence and near love of God.

Her old intolerance was softened, or rather it had changed from antagonisms on the surface to living principles at the core.