Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by [pseud.] Ian Maclaren
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young." Since then Domsie had seen the kingdom of God, and this is
graven where the roses bloomed fresh every summer for twenty years till Marget was laid with her son: GEORGE HOWE, M.A., Died September 22nd, 1869, Aged 21. "They shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it." It was a late November day when I went to see George's memorial, and the immortal hope was burning low in my heart; but as I stood before that cross, the sun struggled from behind a black watery bank of cloud, and picked out every letter of the Apocalypse in gold. A HIGHLAND MYSTIC I WHAT EYE HATH NOT SEEN Strange ministers who came to assist at the Free Kirk Sacrament were much impressed with the elders, and never forgot the transfiguration of Donald Menzies, which used to begin about the middle of the "action" sermon, and was completed at the singing of the last Psalm. |
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