I wad like to lie doon at last wi' hard soles!" In every stream he came to he bathed his feet, and often on the way rested them, when otherwise able enough to go on.

He had no certain goal, though he knew his direction, and was in no haste.

He had confidence in God and in his own powers as the gift of God, and knew that wherever he went he needed not be hungry long, even should the little money in his pocket be spent.

It is better to trust in work than in money: God never buys anything, and is for ever at work; but if any one trust in work, he has to learn that he must trust in nothing but strength--the self-existent, original strength only; and Donal Grant had long begun to learn that.

The man has begun to be strong who knows that, separated from life essential, he is weakness itself, that, one with his origin, he will be of strength inexhaustible.