But he had naething to do wi' them. The first comman'ment was a'
he kent. He loved God--nae a God like Jesus Christ, but the God he
kent--and that was a' he could. The second comman'ment--that
glorious recognition o' the divine in humanity makin' 't fit and
needfu' to be loved, that claim o' God upon and for his ain bairns,
that love o' the neebour as yer'sel--he didna ken. Still there was
religion in him; and he who died for the sins o' the whole world has
surely been revealed to him lang er' noo, and throu the knowledge o'
him, he noo dwalls in that God efter whom he aspired.'
Here was the outcome of many talks which Robert and the doctor had
had together, as they laboured amongst the poor.
'Did ye never try,' Robert asked, 'to lat him ken aboot the comin'
o' God to his world in Jesus Christ?'
'I couldna do muckle that way honestly, my ain faith was sae poor
and sma'. But I tellt him what Christians believed. I tellt him
aboot the character and history o' Christ. But it didna seem to tak
muckle hauld o' him. It wasna interesstin' till him. Just ance
whan I tellt him some things he had said aboot his relation to
God--sic as, "I and my Father are one,"--and aboot the relation o'
a' his disciples to God and himsel'--"I in them, and thou in me,
that they may be made perfect in one," he said, wi' a smile, "The
man was a good Brahmin."
'It's little,' said Robert, 'the one great commandment can do
withoot the other.
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