Her questioning cogitation was to this effect: "What need has a man to know anything but what the New Testament teaches him?
Life was little to me before I began to understand its good news; now it is more than good--it is grand.

But then, man is to live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God; and everything came out of his mouth, when he said, Let there be this, and Let there be that.
Whatever is true is his making, and the more we know of it the better.

Besides, how much less of the New Testament would I understand now, if it were not for things I had gone through and learned before!" "Ay, Robert," she answered, without preface, the third day, "I'm thinkin' there's a heap o' things, gien I hed them, 'at wad help me to ken what the Maister spak till.

It wad be a sin no to lat the laddie learn.

But wha'll tak the trible needfu' to the learnin' o' a puir dummie ?" "Lat him gang doon to the Mains, an' herd wi' Donal," answered Robert.