[Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookScottish sketches CHAPTER II 7/12
I hae gotten my orders, and I am going to obey them.
You may be certain o' that." "I didna think I would ever see Dominie Tallisker taking orders from a disciple o' Arminius--and an Englishman forbye!" "I'll tak my orders, Crawford, from any messenger the Lord chooses to send them by.
And I'll do this messenger justice; he laid down no law to me, he only spak o' the duty laid on his own conscience; but my conscience said 'Amen' to his--that's about it.
There has been a breath o' the Holy Ghost through the Church o' England lately, and the dry bones o' its ceremonials are being clothed upon wi' a new and wonderfu' life." "Humff!" said the laird with a scornful laugh as he kicked a pebble out of his way. "There is a great outpouring at Oxford among the young men, and though I dinna agree wi' them in a' things, I can see that they hae gotten a revelation." "Ou, ay, the young ken a' things.
It is aye young men that are for turning the warld upside down.
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