And the
higher ye rise ye come into the waur danger, till ance ye're fairly intil
the ae safe place, the hert o' the Father. There, and there only, ye're
safe!--safe frae earth, frae hell, and frae yer ain hert! A' the
temptations, even sic as ance made the haivenly hosts themsels fa' frae
haiven to hell, canna touch ye there! But whan man or wuman repents and
heumbles himsel, there is He to lift them up, and that higher than ever
they stede afore!"
"Syne they're no to be despised that fa'!"
"Nane despises them, lassie, but them that haena yet learnt the danger
they're in o' that same fa' themsels. Mony ane, I'm thinking, is keepit
frae fa'in, jist because she's no far eneuch on to get the guid o' the
shame, but would jist sink farther and farther!"
"But Eppie tells me that maist o' them 'at trips gangs on fa'in, and never
wins up again."
"Ou, ay; that's true as far as we, short-lived and short-sichtit craturs,
see o' them! but this warl's but the beginnin; and the glory o' Christ,
wha's the vera Love o' the Father, spreads a heap further nor that.
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