[Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable]@TWC D-Link bookSimon Called Peter CHAPTER VII 14/47
And I'll tell you something else we've learnt--that it is better for half a million to fail in the trying than for the thing not to be tried at all." "Arnold," said Peter, "what about yourself? Do you mind my asking? Do you feel this sort of thing at all, and, if so, what's your solution ?" The padre from north of the Tweed knocked the ashes out of his pipe and got up, "Young man," he said, "I don't mind your asking, but I'm getting old, and my answering wouldn't do either of us any good, if I have a solution I don't suppose it would be yours.
Besides, a man can't save his brother, and not even a father can save his son ....
I've nothing to tell ye, except, maybe, this: don't fear and don't falter, and wherever you get to, remember that God is there.
David is out of date these days, and very likely it wasn't David at all, but I don't know anything truer in the auld book than yon verse where it says: 'Though I go down into hell, Thou art there also.'" "I beg your pardon, padre," said a drawling voice behind them.
"I caught a word just now which I understand no decent clergyman uses except in the pulpit.
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