Donal Grant

cake and hard skim-milk cheese: about two o'clock he sat down on a stone, and proceeded to make a meal. A brook from the hills ran near: for that he had chosen

de of the road a small stream, in which the brook that ran swiftly past, almost within reach of his hand, eagerly lost itself. On the further bank of the stream, perfuming the air, grew many bushes of meadow-sweet, or queen-of-the-meadow, as it is called in Scotland;

d, he rose, and taking his cap from his head, filled it from the stream, and drank he

ung man!" c

of a clergyman regarding him from the ro

continued, "how you

taking off his cap again; "I hadna a n

day!" said

, sir!" ans

n apology for his seeming curiosity, "-You're a scholar, I see

wered Donal-then called to mind a resolve h

the clergyman; but Donal hardly

hat you mean by a

reply, but in a bantering humour willing to draw the la

not so much of a scholar as I should like

patronizingly, "You'll be a learned man

call a man learn

seeing those that claim to b

n there be in want

mental discip

at may be worthless. It's just as good discipline to my teeth to dine

humorist!" said the

clergyman saw that he was barefooted. In his childhood he had himself often gone wi

ult!" he said to himself. "He s

inquire his way at the nearest farm-house, but he thou

oing?" asked the m

I can," rep

u mean to pa

erhaps, or on s

hear you can

clean. In fact the hill-side 's the best. Many's the time I have slept on one. It's a strang

abode," said the c

fell asleep once on the top of Glashgar: when I woke the sun was looking over the edge of the horizon. I rose and

ed?" asked t

a man fear the pres

d!" answered

nto his presence it i

e atonement," supple

'atween my God an' me, I'll ha'e nane o' 't. I'll hae naething hide me frae him wh

minister sharply. "It's not your bible, I'll

o wonder; for the gospel the minister preached

nswered Donal, re

Shelley, but had a very decided opinio

understand you, but now all is plain! Young man, you are on t

gh for that! But it came near touching t

l!" said the mi

ort. It's the people who call themselves believers that

truth," said

sure he didn't get to the end of the search. Just listen t

would have a man love Christ for protecting him from God, not for leading him to God in whom alone is bliss, out of whom all is darkness and misery. He had not a glimmer of the truth that eternal life is to know God. He imagined justice

t was in The Mask of Anarchy.

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fear, and l

them as

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laughter t

m up like

nt, or

no hear

e of the meaning, and less of the spirit. He hated opposition to the powers on t

u of that, sir

minister. "Where would Scotla

know about Scotland, but I fancy there would be more Christians, and of a better stamp, in the world, if that

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the truth than those who made him despise the very name of Christianity w

and no less authority, "I am bound to warn you that you are in a sta

clearly how he was misled in his every notion of Christianity, and how different those who gave him his notions must have been from the evangelists and apostles. He saw in the poet a boyish nature

bridge by which he crossed the river. Then on he went through the cultivated pl