The pairt ye hae chosen is guid eneuch never to be taen
frae ye--i' this warl or the neist!"
"Thank ye, father, for that! I'll dee for him what I can, ohn forgotten
that he's no mine but anither wuman's. I maunna tak frae her what's her
ain!"
The soutar, especially while at his work, was always trying "to get," as he
said, "into his Lord's company,"--now endeavouring, perhaps, to understand
some saying of his, or now, it might be, to discover his reason for saying
it just then and there. Often, also, he would be pondering why he allowed
this or that to take place in the world, for it was his house, where he was
always present and always at work. Humble as diligent disciple, he never
doubted, when once a thing had taken place, that it was by his will it came
to pass, but he saw that evil itself, originating with man or his deceiver,
was often made to subserve the final will of the All-in-All. And he knew
in his own self that much must first be set right there, before the will of
the Father could be done in earth as it was in heaven.
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