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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: spot on an old picture that has been restored by the dexterous hand
of the cleaner. I remember a tale of an old Scots minister called
upon suddenly to preach, who had hastily snatched an old sermon out
of his study and found himself in the pulpit before he noticed that
the rats had been making free with his manuscript and eaten the first
two or three pages away; he gravely explained to the congregation how
he found himself situated: 'And now,' said he, 'let us just begin
where the rats have left off.' I must follow the divine's example,
and take up the thread of my discourse where it first distinctly
issues from the limbo of forgetfulness.
COCKERMOUTH
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