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The Standard Bearer
THE FOREWORD
Word Count: 313
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Released on: 17/11/2017
ling. If these pages should chance to be read when the leaves are greening, they may taste somewhat unseasonably in the mouth. For in these days the things of the spirit
ll-his failures mostly, his loves and hates, his few bright days and his many dark nights. Yet withal I have found gre
the Reverend H. M. B. Reid, presently minister of the parish wherein these things were done, in whose faithful and sympathetic narrat
man's heart, weak or strong, now arrogant, and now abased, not according to the fear of man
the world than the love of woman. And t
Chapter End
The Standard Bearer
“A book iron-grey and chill is this that I have written, the tale of times when the passions of men were still working like a yeasty sea after the storms of the Great Killing. If these pages should chance to be read when the leaves are greening, they may taste somewhat unseasonably in the mouth. For in these days the things of the spirit had lost their old authority without gaining a new graciousness, and save for one man the ancient war-cry of “God and the Kirk” had become degraded to “The Kirk and God.””