line.

"Did it ever occur to ye, sir," he said, "'at maybe deith micht be
the first waukin' to some fowk?"

"It has occurrt to me," answered Donal; "but mony things come intil
a body's heid 'at he's no able to think oot! They maun lie an' bide
their time."

"Lat nane o' the lovers o' law an' letter perswaud ye the Lord wadna
hae ye think--though nane but him 'at obeys can think wi' safety.
We maun do first the thing 'at we ken, an' syne we may think aboot
the thing 'at we dinna ken. I fancy 'at whiles the Lord wadna say a
thing jist no to stop fowk thinkin' aboot it. He was aye at gettin'
them to mak use o' the can'le o' the Lord. It's my belief the main
obstacles to the growth o' the kingdom are first the oonbelief o'
believers, an' syne the w'y 'at they lay doon the law. 'Afore they
hae learnt the rudimen's o' the trowth themsel's, they begin to lay
the grievous burden o' their dullness an' ill-conceived notions o'
holy things upo' the min's an' consciences o' their neebours, fain,
ye wad think, to haud them frae growin' ony mair nor themsel's. Eh,
man, but the Lord 's won'erfu'! Ye may daur an' daur, an' no come
i' sicht o' 'im!"

The church stood a little way out of the town, in a churchyard
overgrown with grass, which the wind blew like a field of corn.
Many of the stones were out of sight in it. The church, a relic of
old catholic days, rose out of it like one that had taken to growing
and so got the better of his ills. They walked into the musty,
dingy, brown-atmosphered house. The cobbler led the way to a humble