'He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the
clouds shall not reap.
'As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the
bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou
knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
'In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine
hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or
that, or whether they both shall be alike good.'
'Ay, ay; that's it,' said Dr. Anderson. 'Weel, I maun say again that
they're ill aff for an argument that taks that for ane upo' sic a
momentous subjec'. I prefer to say, wi' the same auld man, that I
know not the works of God who maketh all. But I wish I could say I
believed onything for certain sure. But whan I think aboot it--wad
ye believe 't? the faith o' my father's mair to me nor ony faith o'
my ain. That soonds strange. But it's this: I'm positeeve that
that godly great auld man kent mair aboot a' thae things--I cud see
't i' the face o' 'm--nor ony ither man 'at ever I kent. An' it's
no by comparison only. I'm sure he did ken. There was something
atween God and him. An' I think he wasna likely to be wrang; an'
sae I tak courage to believe as muckle as I can, though maybe no sae
muckle as I fain wad.'
Robert, who from experience of himself, and the observations he had
made by the bedsides of not a few dying men and women, knew well
that nothing but the truth itself can carry its own conviction; that
the words of our Lord are a body as it were in which the spirit of
our Lord dwells, or rather the key to open the heart for the
entrance of that spirit, turned now from all argumentation to the
words of Jesus.
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