I've forgotten all about that. I only desire and pray
to do the will of my God--which is all in all to me."
"What say ye than aboot the sowls o' ither fowk? Wadna ye save
them, no?"
"Gladly would I save them--but according to the will of God. If
I were, even unwittingly, to attempt it in any other way, I should
be casting stumbling blocks in their path, and separating myself
from my God--doing that which is not of faith, and therefore is
sin. It is only where a man is at one with God that he can do the
right thing or take the right way. Whatever springs from any other
source than the spirit that dwelt in Jesus, is of sin, and works
to thwart the divine will. Who knows what harm may be done to a
man by hurrying a spiritual process in him?"
"I doobt, sir, gien yer doctrine was to get a hearin', there wad
be unco little dune for the glory o' God i' this place!" remarked
Bow o' meal, with sententious reproof.
"But what was done would be of the right sort, and surpassingly
powerful."
"Weel, to come back to the business in han'--what wad be yer
advice?" said Bow o' meal.
"That's a thing none but a lawyer should give. I have shown you
what seem to me the principles involved: I can do no more."
"Ye dinna ca' that neebourly, whan a body comes speirin' 't?"
"Are you prepared then to take my advice?"
"Ye wadna hae a body du that aforehan'! We micht as weel a' be
Papists, an' believe as we 're tauld."
"Precisely so. But you can exercise your judgment upon the principles
whereon my opinion is founded, with far more benefit than upon my
opinion itself--which I cannot well wish you to adopt, seeing
I think it far better for a man to go wrong upon his own honest
judgment, than to go right upon anybody else's judgment, however
honest also.
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