st before it was time for Kirsty to arrive from the "Question
Meeting," she took her Gaelic Bible and opened at the Lord's Prayer, as
she had done once before.

"It is a terrible thing to be unforgiven, Mr. Macdonald," she said,
"by man or by God. And God is unwilling that any of us should feel that
pain, and that is why he is so free with his offer of pardon to all who
come with sorrow to him. They come with sorrow to him now, but they will
come to him some day with great joy." And then she spoke a little of the
great company of the forgiven before the throne, and at the very last,
a few words about the gentle little woman that had passed out from
Macdonald Dubh's sight so many years before. Then, falling on her knees,
she began in the Gaelic,

"Our Father which art in Heaven."

Earnestly and brokenly Macdonald Dubh followed, whispering the petitions
after her. When they came to

"Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,"

Macdonald Dubh broke forth: "Oh, it is a little thing, whatever! It is
little I have to forgive." And then, in a clear, firm voice, he repeated
the words after her to the close of the prayer.

Then Mrs. Murray rose, and taking him by the hand to bid him good
by, she said, slowly: "'For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you your trespasses.' You have
forgiven, Mr. Macdonald."

"Indeed, it is nothing," he said, earnestly.

"Then," replied Mrs. Murray, "the Lord will not break his promise to
you." And with that she went away.

On Saturday morning the session met before the service for the day. In
the midst of their deliberations the door opened and Macdonald Bhain
and his brother, Macdonald Dubh, walked in and stood silent before
the elders. Mr. Murray rose astonished, and coming forward, said to
Macdonald Bhain: "What is it, Mr. Macdonald? You wish to see me?"

"I am here," he said, "for my own sake and for my brother's. We wish to
make confession of our sins, in that we have not been men of love, and
to seek the forgiveness of God."

The minister stood and gazed at him in amazed silence for some moments,
and then, giving his hand to Macdonald Dubh, he said, in a voice husky
with emotion: "Come away, my brother. The Lord has a welcome for you."

And there were no questions that day asked in the session before
Macdonald Dubh received his token.

CHAPTER XVI

AND THE GLORY

The first communion in the new church wa