He sought to forget their presence, and be conscious only of his pupil's and his master's.

On the lawn he stopped suddenly.
"Davie," he said, "where do you fancy the first lesson in the New Testament ought to begin ?" "At the beginning," replied Davie.
"When a thing is perfect, Davie, it is difficult to say what is the beginning of it: show me one of your marbles." The boy produced from his pocket a pure white one--a real marble.
"That is a good one for the purpose," remarked Donal, "-- very smooth and white, with just one red streak in it! Now where is the beginning of this marble ?" "Nowhere," answered Davie.
"If I should say everywhere ?" suggested Donal.
"Ah, yes!" said the boy.
"But I agree with you that it begins nowhere." "It can't do both!" "Oh, yes, it can! it begins nowhere for itself, but everywhere for us.
Only all its beginnings are endings, and all its endings are beginnings.

Look here: suppose we begin at this red streak, it is just there we should end again.

That is because it is a perfect thing .-- Well, there was one who said, 'I am Alpha and Omega,'-- the first Greek letter and the last, you know--'the beginning and the end, the first and the last.' All the New Testament is about him.

He is perfect, and I may begin about him where I best can.