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Title: Tang. A Shetland story.Publisher: British Library,
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Burgess, James John Haldane; 1898. 239 p.; 8 . 012623.g.30.
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CHAPTER III BOB " Conticucre oinncs"?Virgil NEXT Saturday afternoon
Mr. Mann went out for his usual short walk. He turned, as was his
wont, to the northwest, up the green slope at the foot of which
stood Kirk and Manse, across the dark strip of heather, along below
the corn of Hooll, up the steep footpath between the " rigs," and
so on to the top of the hill behind old Magnus Sharp's house. As he
walked, he repeated half aloud to himself bits of his sermon for
the morrow. The theme was " Praise" again. He could not get beyond
it. There was a fine view from the top of the hill; but when he
reached the top he was so taken up with his own thoughts that for a
time he gave no heed to it. He stopped, however, and turned his
eyes absently to the north-east and the entrance of the voe. He had
chosen for his text the first clause in the first verse of the
sixty-fifth Psalm. The fact of his physical position slowly forced
itself upon his notice, but it was mingled with his spiritual
reflections. "Praise waiteth for Thee, O God, in Zion," he repeated
aloud. He had ended his sermon by stating that the praise God
wanted most was that of Man, that of the sole free agent to be
found in all His universe. He felt that this still waited
potentially in the world leavened by the Church, and he made that
thought the basis of his earnest closing appeal. He felt that
spiritually as well as physically he stood at that moment upon a
hilltop, calling to his people to come up to the holy height and
bask there in the glory. Then he remembered that last Sunday he had
noticed two old men asleep. Three or four times the thought of it
had pained him. There was, too, that little, unsatisfactory
incident with Inga. That had been in his mind several times, but
only vaguely. The two old men who had slept b...
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