The next evening he listened to the best sermon he had yet heard from that
pulpit--a summary of the facts bearing on the resurrection of our Lord;--
with which sermon, however, a large part of the congregation was anything
but pleased; for the minister had admitted the impossibility of
reconciling, in every particular, the differing accounts of the doings and
seeings of those who bore witness to it.
"--As gien," said the soutar, "the Lord wasna to shaw himsel till a' that
had seen he was up war agreed as to their recollection o' what fouk had
reportit!"
He went home edified and uplifted by his fresh contemplation of the story
of his Master's victory: thank God! he thought; his pains were over at
last! and through death he was lord for ever over death and evil, over
pain and loss and fear, who was already through his father lord of creation
and life, and of all things visible and invisible! He was Lord also of all
thinking and feeling and judgment, able to give repentance and restoration,
and to set right all that selfwill had set wrong! So greatly did the heart
of his humble disciple rejoice in him, that he scandalized the reposing
sabbath-street, by breaking out, as he went home, into a somewhat
unmelodious song, "They are all gone down to hell with the weapons of their
war!" to a tune nobody knew but himself, and which he could never have sung
again.
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