It's my belief the main obstacles to the growth o' the kingdom are first the oonbelief o' believers, an' syne the w'y 'at they lay doon the law.

'Afore they hae learnt the rudimen's o' the trowth themsel's, they begin to lay the grievous burden o' their dullness an' ill-conceived notions o' holy things upo' the min's an' consciences o' their neebours, fain, ye wad think, to haud them frae growin' ony mair nor themsel's.

Eh, man, but the Lord 's won'erfu'! Ye may daur an' daur, an' no come i' sicht o' 'im!" The church stood a little way out of the town, in a churchyard overgrown with grass, which the wind blew like a field of corn.

Many of the stones were out of sight in it.

The church, a relic of old catholic days, rose out of it like one that had taken to growing and so got the better of his ills.