ther? But for those who are not one with the source
of being, every manifestation of that being in a life other than their
own, must be more or less a terror to them; it is alien, antipathous,
other,--it may be unappeasable, implacable. The time must even come
when to such their own being will be a horror of repugnant
consciousness; for God not self is ours--his being, not our own, is our
home; he is our kind.

The work was slow--the impression on the hard iron of the worn file so
weak that he was often on the point of giving up the attempt. Fatigue
at length began to invade him, and therewith the sense of his situation
grew more keen: great weariness overcomes terror; the beginnings of
weariness enhance it. Every now and then he would stop, thinking he
heard the cry of a child, only to recognize it as the noise of his
file. He resolved at last to stop for the night, and after tea go to
the town to buy a new and fitter file.

The next day was Sunday, and in the afternoon Donal and Davie were
walking in the old avenue together. They had been to church, and had
heard a dull sermon on the most stirring fact next to the resurrection
of the Lord himself--his raising of Lazarus. The whole aspect of the
thing, as presented by the preaching man, was so dull and unreal, that
not a word on the subject had passed between them on the way home.

"Mr. Grant, how could anybody make a dead man live again?" said Davie
suddenly.

"I don't know, Davie," answered Donal. "If I could know how, I should
probably be able to do it myself."

"It is very hard to believe."

"Yes, very hard--that is, if you do not know anything about the person
said to have done it, to account for his being able to do it though
another could not. But just think of this: if one had never seen or
heard about death, it would be as hard, perhaps harder, to believe that
anything could bring about that change. The one seems to us easy to
understand, because we are familiar with it; if we had seen the other
take place a few times, we should see in it nothing too strange,
nothing indeed but what was to be expected in certain circumstances."

"But that is not enough to prove it ever did take place."

"Assuredly not. It cannot even make it look in the least probable."

"Tell me, please, anything that would make it look probable."

"I will not answer your question directly, but I will answer it.
Listen, Davie.

"In all ages men have longed to see God--some men in