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Sir Gibbie

CHAPTER XXIV
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There is no forgetting of ourselves but in the finding of our deeper, our true self--God's idea of us when he devised us--the Christ in us.

Nothing but that self can displace the false, greedy, whining self, of which, most of us are so fond and proud.

And that self no man can find for himself; seeing of himself he does not even know what to search for.

"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God." Then there was the delight, fresh every week, of the Saturday gathering of the brothers and sisters, whom Gibbie could hardly have loved more, had they been of his own immediate kin.

Dearest of all was Donal, whose greeting--"Weel, cratur," was heavenly in Gibbie's ears.


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