OFW references "eternal Mother."
Orson F. Whitney, “Death,” Young Woman’s Journal 27, no. 4 (April 1916): 200
I wonder if there was not some sadness in our former life when we said good-bye to our eternal Father and Mother, whose children we were before this world was made. I wonder if there was not some sadness in our hearts when we bade them good-bye, to be shut out where we could not see their faces any more.