In his wonderful book, By...
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In his wonderful book, By the Bonnie Briar Bush, Ian Maclaren tells of a brokenhearted father, Lachlan, whose daughter, Flora, left home for the big city. He struck a line through her name in the family bible, for he thought she was lost.
Marget, a neighbor woman, came over to talk one day. She said: "Waes me if our Father had blotted out oor names frae the Book o' Life when we left His hoose. But He sent His ain Son to seek us, an' a weary road He cam." Marget wrote a letter to Flora urging her to return home.
Flora read the letter and wept. She did decide to go home. As she came near, she was anxious. Would her father welcome her? Approaching the house, she saw a candle burning in the window. She ran up the steps and they embraced, the father and daughter.
Later, Flora told Marget: "It iss a peety you hef not the Gaelic. It iss the best of all languages for loving. There are fifty words for darling, and my father would be calling me every one that night I came home."
-- Kettlewell
Marget, a neighbor woman, came over to talk one day. She said: "Waes me if our Father had blotted out oor names frae the Book o' Life when we left His hoose. But He sent His ain Son to seek us, an' a weary road He cam." Marget wrote a letter to Flora urging her to return home.
Flora read the letter and wept. She did decide to go home. As she came near, she was anxious. Would her father welcome her? Approaching the house, she saw a candle burning in the window. She ran up the steps and they embraced, the father and daughter.
Later, Flora told Marget: "It iss a peety you hef not the Gaelic. It iss the best of all languages for loving. There are fifty words for darling, and my father would be calling me every one that night I came home."
-- Kettlewell
