“The blinʼ are gettin their sicht, the lameters walk aboot, the lepers are made clean, the deif are hearin, the deid are raised up, the puir and destitute hae the Blythe‐message proclaimʼt till them!
And as he was drawin nar, and was come intil the doon‐gaun oʼ the Mount oʼ Olives, the hail multitude oʼ the disciples begude joyfully to praise God wiʼ a lood voice, for aʼ the great warks they had seen:
And they war aʼ strucken wiʼ amazement at the michty power oʼ God. But while they ilka ane ferlied at aʼ the things that Jesus had dune, he says to his followers,
“ ‘To unsteek their een, that they may turn them aboot frae the mirk intil the licht, and frae Sautanʼs rule to God; that they may hae their sins forgiʼen, and hae their lot amang them wha are sanctifyʼt by faith in me.’
And whan they had gien them mair warnin, they loot them gang, no seein hoo they coud punish them, on account oʼ the folk; for aʼ glorifyʼt God for what was dune.
But ye are “a waled‐oot race, priests oʼ royalty, a holie people”; a folk for his ain possession, that ye may tell oot the glories oʼ him wha bade ye oot oʼ darkness to come into his wunnerfuʼ licht.