Amongst them, in their turn, they read these: "I will both lay me down in peace and sleep, for thou, Lord, only makest me to dwell in safety." Yet not only do these readers never have such a feeling in their own hearts in consequence, but they never even imagine that David really had it in his.

Deeper and grander things still, uttered by this same shepherd-warrior, do they read, and yet in their wisdom will declare it preposterous that any Scotch lad should have such a feeling towards God as I have represented! "Doth God care for oxen ?" says St.Paul.Doth God care for kings?
I ask, or for Jew-shepherds?
Or does he not care all over for all of us--oxen and kings and sparrows and Scotch lairds?
According to such blind seers, less is to be expected of humanity since the son of David came, than it was capable of in his father David.

Such men build stone houses, but never a spiritual nest.

They cannot believe the thing possible which yet another man DOES.

Nor ever may they believe it before they begin to do it.