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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: would be my shame if I denied it; I live here at your mercy
and by your favour, and glory to acknowledge it. You have
pity on my wretched body, which is but grass, and must soon
be trodden under: but O, Haddo! how much greater is the
yearning with which I yearn after and pity your immortal
soul! Come now, let us reason together! I drop all points
of controversy, weighty though these be; I take your defaced
and damnified kirk on your own terms; and I ask you, Are you
a worthy minister? The communion season approaches; how can
you pronounce thir solemn words, "The elders will now bring
forrit the elements," and not quail? A parishioner may be
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