[Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookScottish sketches CHAPTER IX 6/9
But we cannot separate our spiritual and mortal life; they are the warp and woof which we weave together for eternity.
Therefore David's struggle, though a palpable one in some respects, was, after all, an intensely spiritual one; for it was in the constant recognition of Christ as the Captain of his salvation, and in the constant use of such spiritual aids as his Bible and his minister gave him, that he was enabled to fight a good fight and to come off more than conqueror in a contest wherein so many strive and fail. David's reformation had also a very sensible influence on his business prosperity.
He has won back again now all, and far more than all, he lost, and in all good and great works for the welfare of humanity David Callendar is a willing worker and a noble giver.
The new firm of John and David Callendar acquired a world-wide reputation.
It is still John and David Callendar, for when the dear old deacon died he left his interest in it to David's eldest son, a pious, steady young fellow for whom nobody ever mixed a first glass.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|