“And ye, Capernaum! Till Heeven are ye to be raised? Till hell sal ye be dung doon! for gin the warks dune in you had been dune in Sodom, it wad hae been to the fore to this day!
“And gin aiblins he winna hear them, tell it to the kirk; and gin he winna hear the kirk, than lat him be to ye as a fremʼd ane, or ane oʼ the tax‐men.
And walkin by the Loch oʼ Galilee, he saw twa brithers, Simon, (caʼd Peter), and Andro his brither, castin aboot a net iʼ the Loch, for they war fisher‐folk.
“Tak tent, than, to yersels, and to aʼ the hirsel, in whilk the Holie Spirit has set ye for bishops; to shepherd the Kirk oʼ the Lord, whilk he coft for his sel wiʼ his ain blude.
And Saul was ane wiʼ them, in his death. And thar gat up, that day, an unco persecution again the Kirk‐folk oʼ Jerusalem; and aʼ, except the Apostles, war scattered abreid throwe aʼ the kintra‐side oʼ Judea and Samaria.
And seein the favor whilk was gien to me, James and Peter and John, wha war reputit pillars, gied to me and Barnabas a richt haun oʼ britherhood, that we soud gang to the heathen, and they to the circumceesion.
But, gin aiblins I soud delay, that ye may ken hoo it is necessar iʼ the hoose oʼ God to conduct aneʼs sel, whilk in truth is the Kirk oʼ the Leevin God, the pillar and grund?-?waʼ‐stane oʼ the truth.
And sae, seein we are to hae a kingdom that canna be shucken, lat us hae lovin‐favor, that we may render service weel‐pleasin until God, wiʼ reverence and godly fear.
And the seeventh Angel soondit; and thar war lood voices in Heeven, sayin, “The Kingdom oʼ the Warld is come to be the Kingdom oʼ oor Lord, and oʼ his Anointit; and he sal reign for evir and aye!”