“Wharfor say I tʼye, Be‐na sair fashʼd wiʼ cark and care anent yere life — what you are to eat and what ye are to drink! nor yet for yere body, hoo ye are to be cleedit! Isna the life mair nor the meat? and the body mair nor the cleedin?
“But at sic times as they bring ye up afore the kirks, and the rulers, and the authorities, ye are‐na to be in a swither, as to what ye are to reply, nor what ye are to say.
“But thir things hae I said tʼye, that ye micht hae peace. Iʼ the warld ye hae dool and sorrow eneuch; but blythely haud yersels; I hae grippit the warld, and putten it doon.”
Makin steive the sauls oʼ the disciples, entreatin them to bide iʼ the faith; sayin, “Throwe a hantle oʼ afflictions maun we win to the Kingdom oʼ God.”