--"Maybe, like the Ephesians, ye haena yet fund oot gien there be
ony Holy Ghost, sir?" he said to him aloud.
"No man dares deny that!" answered the minister.
"Still a man mayna _ken't_, though he daursna deny't! Nane but them 'at
follows whaur he leads, can ken that he verily is."
"We must beware of private interpretation!" suggested James.
"Gien a man hearsna a word spoken til his ain sel', he has na the word to
lippen til! The Scriptur is to him but a sealed buik; he walks i' the dark.
The licht is neither pairtit nor gethered. Gien a man has licht, he has
nane the less that there's twa or three o' them thegither present.--Gien
there be twa or three prayin thegither, ilk ane o' the three has jist what
he's able to receive, and he kens 't in himsel as licht; and the fourth may
hae nane. Gien it comena to ilk ane o' them, it comesna to a'. Ilk ane maun
hae the revelation intil his ain sel', as gien there wasna ane mair. And
gien it be sae, hoo are we to win at ony trouth no yet revealed, 'cep we
gang oot intil the dark to meet it? Ye maun caw canny, I admit, i' the
mirk; but ye maun caw gien ye wad win at onything!" "But suppose you know
enough to keep going, and do not care to venture into the dark?"
"Gien a man hauds on practeesin what he kens, the hunger 'ill wauk in him
efter something mair.
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