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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: like an ordinary citizen, but like a heavenly minister,
relating his comfortable Christian experiences, and called
for his Bible, and laid it on his wounded arm, and read John
iii. 8, and spoke upon it to the admiration of all. But most
of all, when Mr. M'Kail died, there was such a lamentation as
was never known in Scotland before; not one dry cheek upon
all the street, or in all the numberless windows in the
mercate place.' (7)
The following passage from this speech speaks for itself and
its author:
'Hereafter I will not talk with flesh and blood, nor think on
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