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He might have been a prophet's right-hand man, he might have been the prophet himself. He stood, at sixty-five, lean and strong, gray-haired, but with decrepitude far away. Elder of the kirk, sternly religious, able at his own affairs, he read his Bible and prospered in his earthly living. Now he listened to the laird's message, nodding his head, but saying little.
'He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward. They who by reason of circumstances, by deficiency of power, or by the weight of other tasks and duties, can only give silent sympathy, and prayer, and help, are one with the men whom they help.
Jesus may have had this word in mind, when He called to Him all them 'that labour and are heavy laden. At all events, the prophet's ideal and the evangelists' story accurately correspond. Christ's words have other characteristics, but are eminently words that sustain the weary and comfort the down-hearted.
"She's better than she looks," returned the prophet's wife, "an' that's a great deal to say for her." "That's but truth," replied the stranger, "and I believe it; for indeed she has goodness in her face." "She has and in her heart," replied Nelly; "no wondher, indeed, that every one calls her the Gra Gal, for it's she that well deserves it.
That's all I can say, an' indeed all I know." "If it is widin the bounds of my power, I'll do it," returned the other; "but it's little I can do, God help me." "Nelly," said Mave, "will you go on to the cross-roads there, an' I'll be with you in a minute." The cross-roads alluded to were only a couple of hundred yards before them. The prophet's wife proceeded, and Mave renewed the conversation.
It was because she was absorbed in the personal application of all things to her own secret case that she paid less attention to the prophet's remarks.
And, during the service of my hand-maiden, Dorothy, who was buxom and comely of aspect, his Honour the Laird of Smackawa, in his peregrinations to and from the metropolis, was wont to prefer my Prophet's Chamber even to the sanded chamber of dais in the Wallace Inn, and to bestow a mutchkin, as he would jocosely say, to obtain the freedom of the house, but, in reality, to assure himself of my company during the evening.
And in so far as any of you are acting in this way you are doing a prophet's work, and you, too, may claim to have been jealous for the Lord God of Hosts. But the blessing of it is greater still.
The prophetic words, spoken as in his own person, end with verse 10, and, catching up their representations, expanding, defining, glorifying them, comes the solemn thunder of the voice of God. I now deal only with the prophet's vision of the work of the Servant of the Lord.
We must remember our Lord's teaching, that the giver of 'a cup of cold water in the name of a prophet' in some measure shares in the prophet's work, and will surely share in the prophet's reward.
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