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Chris and Robert are wearied by life as they increasingly find they can do little to help the townsfolk after the closure of the mills. The mills' demise leaves families homeless with devastating consequences, and Robert's health deteriorates.
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00:30That year of 1926 brought changes to Seget and Robert.
00:48He was different, folks said, since the strike had collapsed.
00:52And it tickled them to see that even D.L. had come back to Kirk since the minister had quietened down.
00:57The few spinners that came now remembered the name they'd once called him and said that creeping Jesus was back.
01:11He'd got fear to the gentry, the same as the others.
01:14O King, eternal, immortal, invisible, thou only wise...
01:19Mr. Cocky Cahoon's fair quietened down. He has little to say of his tink-legs breakers now.
01:25What kind of sermon was that he preached?
01:27What did he mean, there's nothing new under the sun?
01:29Oh, it just shows what kind of a twister he is. Sly guy, sly.
01:33Who's that provost?
01:34He was insulting us, trying to make good at the work that we did to beat on coarse labor thinks was a nothing.
01:40Man, I never thought of that, you're right.
01:42Aye, well, now that his strike's ended so fine, we'll make the scene see a guy change for the good.
01:50And no more unions to cripple folk's trade and a return to prosperity.
01:54Aye, just that. And maybe, uh, maybe a tariff in foreign-made boots.
02:08Are you in pain?
02:09No.
02:11Except...
02:12Aching, maybe, for the waste of it all.
02:27I hate waste.
02:32Waste.
02:33Waste.
02:34You sound like a woman in an Aberdeen joke.
02:40Waste.
02:41Good God, do you think that is all?
02:43Christine.
02:53I'm sorry.
02:58But I'm weary as well.
03:02Let's not speak of it anymore.
03:03I ache for something else as well, Robert.
03:22But I ache for kind eyes and hands.
03:33Not now, Chris.
03:37Not now.
03:38And maybe not again, when you would.
03:56I'm told that all the Cronin's have been sacked for the mills.
03:59Aye.
04:00They've been a mere preaching on Sundays about the coming of socialism and dirt like that.
04:06I suppose you, uh, you heard about joke, Cronin?
04:10Heard he'd gone to Glasgow.
04:12My Ginny Grant, the schoolteacher, she's been seen all painted and powdered.
04:16It seems she's taken to the streets and Cronin's living off her earnings.
04:20I don't believe it.
04:21I do.
04:22That's just what you'd expect for dirt that speak ill of the betters and yet paint and powder
04:27and fornicate.
04:28Aye.
04:29Just like gentry.
04:33And if it else for the young gent, dear, we'll go off on a cruise if he's a mind to.
04:38It's no more its fault there's nae work.
04:42What's this you been saying of my brother?
04:44What?
04:45Who are you, lad?
04:46You can damn well who I am.
04:47Dod Cronin.
04:48And if I hear you spreading your clake about my brother or Miss Ginny Grant, I'll bash in your old face with one of your hammers.
05:02Take care, take care what you say.
05:04I'm not a man to be roused, let me tell you.
05:06Well, just you be damned careful with your tongue.
05:16Did you hear that?
05:17Did you hear the way he spoke to me?
05:19I've never in my life had such impotence.
05:21Young tink.
05:22They are the same, these Cronin's.
05:24Aye.
05:25They are that.
05:26I had a sore job to stop myself taking a good clout at them.
05:29Oh, I could see that.
05:31Sounds the sort of story Segett would enjoy.
05:34But it's not true.
05:35The letter said Jock's got a job organising some union down Glasgow.
05:40I don't think the good folk of Segett are very interested in the truth.
05:43Well, maybe no, but I won't have that said about my brother.
05:46I went down to the Smitty and I told old Leslie I'd bash his face in if he didn't stop.
05:50Oh.
05:52You shouldn't have done that, Dodd.
05:54He's an old man.
05:55You shouldn't let his scandal-mongering provoke you.
05:58But you were a friend of Jock's.
06:01And Ginny's.
06:02I mean, the three of you were on the strike committee together.
06:05The strike committee.
06:08So what would you have me do?
06:11Well, Leslie's an elder of the Kirk.
06:15You could speak to him.
06:17Just put it down there, Els. Thanks.
06:20I'm sorry, Dodd, I don't think speaking to Mr. Leslie would do any good.
06:27Don't worry about his gossip.
06:30You can only expect a smell from a drain.
06:35Shall I pour the tea, Minister?
06:37Please, Els.
06:40No for me.
06:43A day you want on it.
06:47If you leave your window open again after they've gone to bed...
06:50Not tonight.
06:51Mabel's sleeping with me.
06:54Damn her.
06:58Why doesn't your sister sleep with the cuddy?
07:00The cuddy might object.
07:05Dodd,
07:07There's something I'll have to tell you.
07:11When will you be back?
07:12Well, this evening I have business in Stonehaven.
07:16Kirk meeting.
07:17All the ministers have been called together to discuss the falling off in Kirk attendance.
07:22It's been that way since the war.
07:24There's hardly a Kirk in the house that isn't half empty.
07:27And now we're going to discuss the reason.
07:29Well, they surely know why.
07:31Do they need a meeting to find out that?
07:34Oh.
07:36And do you know the reason?
07:39Yes.
07:41The reason's just that times have changed.
07:44By God.
07:46Isn't that profound?
07:48What a fool I'd been to say what I'd said.
07:58Like telling a blind, angry man he was blind.
08:02I would keep to myself.
08:06I was nobody's self.
08:11I lit the lamp as I heard Robert come.
08:13And carried it through to the hall.
08:15For him to see to hang up his coat and heart.
08:17You're late?
08:18Yes.
08:34You look very sweet Christine.
08:37There with the lamp.
08:47Ah, Lord.
08:48Let's look ahead.
08:57you're not cold are you no not cold
09:27what's tain you Robert Robert what is it
09:41just something you'll think is quite mad when you hear I left the meeting to
09:47cycle home grinding my whole bike up through De Notters woods I'd looked once
09:53or twice from the road to the woods Chris I saw them green in April quiet the
10:01sunset behind me quiet very quiet Chris I'd ridden up there till the way grew
10:11steep and as I gained the near edge of the woods I got from a bike and I look
10:15back at Stonehaven in that corridor of trees the light fell dim a hidden place
10:24no Sun came there and as I stood and breathed in the quiet I saw the figure
10:34come slow down the road he came so quiet by the side of the road that I didn't
10:41hear his coming or passing till I turned my head
10:47I saw him quite close tired with a white strange look on his face no ghost for the
11:01hair blew out from his head and he put up his hand to brush back the hair
11:06and I saw the hand and the pierced palm
11:12I stood there frozen as the figure went on down through the quiet of De Notters woods
11:21a wood pigeon crooned in a far-off tree heard the sound of a train in Stonehaven
11:48I stood there and stared and then lent on my bike trembling suddenly weeping down in my hands
12:03I could almost have touched the figure Chris
12:09God
12:13it was him Chris
12:18whom I've never believed
12:20but I saw then
12:22clear and clear as he spoke
12:25the fear that had haunted his life since the war
12:29fear he'd be left in the day alone
12:32and stand and look
12:34at his own naked self
12:37and with every hoping and plan that failed
12:42he turned to another
12:44to hide from that fear
12:46draping his dreams on the face of life
12:49as now this dream
12:51of a sorrowing face
12:54is
12:55but you don't believe
12:57I don't know
13:09I don't know
13:10I don't know
13:15I'll try
13:19I'll try
13:22morning Chris
13:28oh hello hey
13:29oh sorry
13:31my
13:32you're in a hurry this morning sis
13:34this morning sis no my mind was elsewhere and how are things at the college fine fine
13:42mrs cocoon yes nothing
13:49i'm off for a long walk down the hoe i'm restless today would you like to come yes i would like that
14:04a mind once standing here long ago in the summer watching the bairns playing dune in the shallows
14:24i was 16 then
14:28by the time i was 20 i was married with a bairn
14:30there's there's something i want to tell you
14:39i think i know what
14:43i don't know how to say it then maybe you'll think of a way in your own time
14:51come on i know a farm up in the risk where we can get milk and scones
15:00we climbed the bray to the geary's moon up in the hills the mists had come down
15:15as we watched we saw a rain cloud wheel out down from the month back and still back line
15:22on line rose the hills the guardian wall of the merns how
15:31i haven't been beyond those hills since i was a bear
15:37i was born beyond them in echt why did you sigh
15:41because i'm getting old that's silly i sometimes think you're the youngest of all the folks in saget
15:54oh we're such fools women
15:59don't you think we are now sis
16:02fools to worry so much about men and their ploys the things that they do and the things that they
16:07think what else is there to do they count for so much or maybe they don't as much as they think
16:19there wouldn't be children without them would there i suppose there wouldn't but still
16:27we might try
16:28is the boy dod cronin
16:37aye it's dod
16:40i love him mrs calhoun and i know he loves me so i heard it all
16:46and it seemed to me it was not sis alone her tale but all tales i hearken to then kisses and kindness
16:59and the pain of love
17:02sharp and sweet terrible dark and the wild queer beauty of the hands of men
17:10and their lips and the sleeps of desire fulfilled and the dark strange movements of awareness alone
17:19it's like a crime when it came on women what thing they carried darkling coming to life within them
17:29new life to replenish earth again
17:33to come to being in the windy how
17:36where the cloud ships sail to the unseen south
17:40i must think sis
17:41i'll get robert to help
17:45minister
17:47oh mrs calhoun what do men know of such things it's not their concern they don't understand
17:56dodd doesn't he's frightened for me or himself
18:00but he doesn't know this
18:05how queer it all is and sickening and fine
18:13maybe i'm sickening myself to say that
18:15no
18:16i think you're sweet to say it
18:26come on i'm so hungry
18:29dodd and sis were married and they moved to aberdeen where he found a job
18:42there were none to be had in seggett and the second mill stayed closed
18:46mowat came back from his crews
18:51and a deputation of spinners went to see him
18:53i'm afraid there's really no possibility of my opening the other mill
18:57in fact i don't really know how much longer i can keep the one going
19:00but i'm afraid there's really nothing much i can do about it
19:18you see uh old chap it's uh it's the taxation that's killing the country
19:23not many people understand that
19:26sara there's no hope
19:29well i wouldn't go that far there's always hope
19:32i mean there's a general election in june we can all hope that the conservatives are
19:35returned to offer stronger than ever in a position of power
19:39and that they might reduce taxation on men like myself
19:43and then perhaps i might manage to uh open the mill again
19:58and then i'll be able to do that
20:01morning egg sorry i'm late
20:03it's just as well you hurried mrs gawne as you can see we're guys short of room
20:09i heard you were canvassing for the liberal man no doubt doing him more harm than good
20:13maybe so
20:17i've been standing here all day watching the tory cars piled black with folk getting off to vote for the gentry
20:24oh
20:32ah there's good in none of their parties but the liberals had a great name and that's worth a vote
20:39yeah the minister will be voting labor
20:46no the minister isn't voting at all
20:48aye
20:51the rest of the country done half as well as seggett these labor tanks wouldn't be in power
20:56adee oh that cursed brit ramsey mcdonald prime minister you mind fit he said during the war that
21:02we shouldn't have be fighting the german aye that's what he said there he is head of the
21:07country and lord and are about and maybe no even saying sir to the king oh he'll likely get the
21:12king to mark him a duke or something oh he has a title already is he all right lord loon of lossy
21:18mouth damn it ogilvy are you against this government as well it's an old day this for
21:24our scottish land i mean we'll fit my ancestor rabbi bums wrote a man's a man for our land now i
21:33wonder fit he could have meant oh it's getting gay bad mistress there's spinners starving down in
21:39the old town another 20 have been sacked and it's likely the second mill well closed down
21:45robert did you hear that i heard well john we must be off
21:56he'd heard and listened and said not a word who once would have flamed into curses and anger
22:06on the cruelty of men feed my land but now he stood in the pulpit and preached
22:13his text the saying of christ as they clustered around the fire feed my lambs
22:20and i looked at the people he preached to as the fish what hope in appealing to them for help
22:27were there but a flicker he had sold his soul to that fancy and figure for something at least
22:33well but they heeded as little the whine of his christ as the angry threat of his struggling god
22:42the year turned and as 1930 wore on to april it brought changes to else
22:49alec hogg had gotten himself a job as a road mender and there were rumors about them
22:54but nothing certain until one morning
23:01a coin that inks warm the bed of a westerl like the ale
23:05of you want to bring respectable folk like your mother and me and shame to our graves no i don't
23:11think so i only want to bring else to tea by god it'll be all my deep body if you did
23:16there's worse folk than alec at least so i hear and as for being happy oh nobody is that's not true
23:27still maybe you've got the sense of the thing not looking for happiness or madness or delight
23:35i left these behind me in d.l's bed no mom and it looked to work and living in my life
23:41eating and sleeping and getting up in the morning and now i suppose having burns
23:49there are ways of avoiding that i could maybe help you
23:54i've heard of them i couldn't do that i know how you feel i used to feel the same but
24:05you get used to the idea no it wouldn't be right to do anything like that
24:11it's surely better to do that than have burns that you can't bring up
24:15come just the same and we'll manage
24:19i couldn't do things to myself like that else would you dust my study early i have some work to
24:24get through i didn't know minister
24:28i couldn't help overhearing you really shouldn't have said that to else christine
24:33why not because we have no rights in these matters at all
24:38no rights none we have meddled too much in our lives as it is
24:44they are god's concern the children who come then you denounce what we have done ourselves
24:49else's wedding celebrations were held down in the hall of the second arms
24:59there was lots to eat and lots of dancing and the noise went far into the night
25:04after robert had left after robert had left for folk were afraid of robert now he changed so much
25:13it was never allowed
25:23but my first lover stole the rose but as she left the thorn we meet
25:39i
25:53hi ewan you seem guy keen on the dancing you've danced with most of the women
25:58it's rather fun but most were too fat around the hips the hips are the things that count i find
26:03master ewan i'm shocked i don't suppose you are at least not much
26:18my god she has her eye in the sun now what do you mean it's well kent of the minister's laneway
26:37else queen aye it was said he fathered a bear and not the elf it was said be a pack of mid-minded
26:44muckers like you two it was said true i've watched her with kahuna and i know bed shaming a man when
26:51i see you you you dirty wee rat you know nothing watch your mouth ogilvy i won't be spoken to like that
27:00outside right outside
27:02it's strange like lad that there's something unnatural about him a sly young brute you can
27:13well believe aye and his own little son of a cop just that was killed in the war mind the sea does
27:19feel at college oh he would wouldn't he no doubt his stepfather does all his lessons and he gets the
27:25credits aye likely that'll bet here it's a good time you dance with someone your own age ewan this is
27:35jenny ray she works at the mans at freeland and i dare say she'll be wanting someone to walk her home
27:41right my money my good young tabindale i better watch him so without you i'm told she often plays
27:59a bit with the loons and gets them in a sore way to have her oh aye and what happens then nothing she
28:05leaves them looking and hammering like fools i mind when i was alone i bet the gardener aye aye you've dealt me
28:21good they're still at it
28:23tell me what to do to be pure in the light of the all-seeing eyes
28:42tell me is there no sure cure no escape from the sins i despise
28:49i'm whiter than the snow whiter than the snow
28:59wash me in the blood of the lamb and i shall be whiter than snow
29:06no other maid took the place of else and i did my own work in the manse
29:19we had to draw in our horns like other folk and as the year wore on to autumn
29:24folk woke to the fact of ill changes in seggett
29:27good day to you mistress cahoon good day good day mr leslie
29:34aye folk count their silla now here they spend it
29:38aye there isn't a soul that hasn't been hit in some way what with the prices rising and the
29:43spinners with hardly a meck in their pockets to spend in the shops
29:46and the dirt will have even less to spend i'm thinking if mowat closes the other mill
29:51he'll not do that surely the station master told me there's so little jute coming in he wonders how
29:57long it'll keep going but you do see that the bank cannot advance you the loan without security
30:03but my dear chap i have a storage shed bulging with bales of jute packed to the roof in fact
30:09surely that's security well if i could see the delivery notes
30:14do better than that i'll show you the jute well
30:17do better than that i think i could recommend that the bank should advance you 500
30:26hmm
30:47i never thought to see dite pete rope from his own doorstep they say he hasn't a meck of his
31:02aim what'll happen to him now i wonder he might well ask folk put up with him and his dirty talk when
31:08he owned a bit shop but he'll find things different now young mowat sacked every servant in the house
31:15he said he had any choice he being taxed to death with these labor tinks which a damn disgrace
31:21oh my god it's changed days since he used to come up for a jaunt to london with half a dozen
31:25whores in the back of his car no more than you'd expect a gent to do if he's got the money to do it
31:30oh true enough only if you'd expect to a gent or d l i was up at his place today to ask if he tacked me on
31:41he did and got me damn cheap at that as new housekeepers in the same old way
31:47like the doctor said there must be something in the air of meikle boggs
31:51you just shut up what was that i was sick of you and your foul mouth now you're bloody clever even
32:04though you can't even keep a shop roof over your head don't you talk to me like that hog by god i'll
32:09talk to you the way he kogled he did and finish the job for him
32:23young moat swindled the bank he's vanished with their money and now the bank's taken over the
32:46mills all the folk have been sacked and the mill shut down folk are saying that they'll never open again
32:53rain held the sky at that november's end and down in the old town a weary indifference lay on the
32:59winds folk paid no heed to the coming election where the liars and cheats called labor or tory
33:07they'd feather their own nests and lie to the end genie grant mrs cajon and is genie cronin now
33:17and has been for the past two years so i'd have and how is jock oh ask him for yourself
33:30it's nice to see you again mrs galhoun how's the minister keeping oh he's fine thanks
33:37and what brings you back to second oh i was in dindy giving a lecture and we thought we'd come up and see
33:42my father he's none too well so john can ill spare the time the union keeps him busy what with his
33:47lecturing and the like oh well we must all do what we can these days to put the country back in
33:52its feet an alliance between the employers and the employee that's what's called for and that's
33:57what we'll get under ramsey mcdonald the country first the party's been swayed and that's what his
34:03lectures called and he delivered it here if you encourage him he always had a talent for public
34:09speaking joke i mind well the old days when you spoke in second square oh well they were the old
34:15days there's no call for folk to go and strike now they should depend on their leaders and he might
34:21be one himself soon there's talk of putting john up as a parliamentary candidate for the national
34:26labour party of course of course hi well uh we'd best be away mrs covina just send my regards to
34:35the minister the country first parties must wait for that of course he'll mean political parties and
34:50not the kind you'll hold in his big glasgow house yeah well i hope he stayed long enough to see how it
34:58is in the west wind i've heard it's gay bar to the spinners be a gay bad new year for most of them
35:05now that they've brought in the means test what's that egg well now them that's been on the dole over
35:11long will be told that their relatives must keep them the walsons have been cut off altogether because
35:17they're old grannies on the old age pension three of them to live on 10 shillings a week
35:23god damn it i never liked the spinners much but when i see what's happening to them now it fair makes
35:28me sick they won't stand it there'll be revolution revolution i'll starve and say nothing or maybe
35:37come walk on my face and i'll give you a vote
35:49but there's worse coming chris the whole of seggett's mortgaged up to the hilt
35:54and since now its creditors took over the place they're forcing the payments right through the nose
35:59i've had feet up at the eviction of two or three families already and there'll be others
36:03up for this winter's done
36:11it's just dry in here oh look you can't expect her to spend the night here not in the big style
36:16i'd rather sleep under her head in a night like this the hell's that
36:19yes
36:21alec i feel it
36:23i think that there's only a heart just wish to try and get some sleep
36:28you can't follow these days
36:31with your body
36:33i think that there's only a few days
36:35live on the basis
36:41thanks
36:42you
36:43because
36:43and
36:43we're going to reach for sure
36:45whoever
36:45you
36:47i think that there's no way
36:49that
36:49or
36:50or
36:51or
36:52I've been crying, but Alec, there's something wrong.
36:54He doesn't usually cry like this.
36:56Oh, God, it's helpless.
36:58More than it, anyway.
37:02Come in, John, come in.
37:04If you want the minister, he's upstairs.
37:06Aye.
37:08Aye, I went to see him.
37:10Aye, aye, I went to see him.
37:12Aye, aye.
37:14Aye, aye.
37:16Aye, aye.
37:18Aye, aye, I went to see him.
37:20Aye, I went to see him.
37:22A gay thing happened last night.
37:24Sit down.
37:26You look gay queer.
37:30What happened?
37:32You've heard of the kindnesses?
37:34Aye.
37:36Ewan told me they'd been evicted on Saturday.
37:38Well, they'd nowhere to go.
37:40So kindness went back to his house at midnight.
37:42He broke a window,
37:44and he put his wife and his bairn hen.
37:46But similarly, Bobby found them there on Sunday morning.
37:50Turned them out again.
37:52Then he boarded up the window.
37:54They weren't out all night, surely?
37:56No, a neighbour took them in for a while.
37:58But she hadn't an inch to spare when night came.
38:00And then kindness came back and said he'd gotten them a place to bite.
38:04Thank God for that.
38:06It was the old piggery.
38:08They slept in a pigsty.
38:14That's worse, mistress.
38:16Mrs. Kindness woke, we heard bairn screaming.
38:18And when she looked, she saw the reason.
38:20The rats in the night had gnawed off its thumb.
38:24Oh, God, no.
38:26My mistress, don't give on my guard now.
38:30John, where are they now?
38:32I don't just well know.
38:33I heard folk had taken meat to the piggery,
38:35and kindness had gone off for a doctor.
38:37Walking all the way to St. Heaven.
38:39Walking?
38:40Chris, I'll go for those folk.
38:42Will you get a room ready before I come back?
38:54I bathed and bandaged the bairn's thumb,
39:15though it near turned me safe.
39:18Are you all right?
39:19Oh, Robert.
39:21Get out of these wet clothes. You're so through.
39:33I will, Chris. I will, as soon as the doctor's been.
39:36How's Mrs. Kindness?
39:38Oh, frightened, poor lass.
39:42I had to be a bit rough with her so I wouldn't break down and weep myself.
39:47She's only a slip of her quine from Kinraday way.
39:56I'm sorry, Mr. Cajun, but I came over late.
40:00Poison and shock.
40:02The woman didn't know it till she had it beside her.
40:04The baby?
40:06The baby's been dead this last hour or more.
40:09The kindnesses went off to friends in Aberdeen
40:13and left no relic but a snow-happed grave
40:17and that memory that woke me sick in the night
40:21of rats that fed on a baby's flesh.
40:25Oh, Robert.
40:28You're burning up.
40:31I'm all right, Chris.
40:34I've got back to sleep.
40:37I'll make you a hot lemon drink.
40:40What time is it?
40:52It's just gone ten.
40:54Well, then I'll need to be up.
40:56Oh, not today.
40:58Nor any day while you've got that cough.
41:00Look, it's not more than a cold.
41:01No.
41:04If I was a man again, I'd hold you.
41:07You wretch of a woman to bully me like this.
41:11You'll be welcome to hold me as you like.
41:15And that cough's better.
41:17Not until then.
41:20Strong and comely still.
41:24I've neglected you, Chris.
41:31I must send for the doctor, Robert.
41:38I'm all right.
41:40Will you fetch me a pad and a pencil?
41:42What for?
41:43If I can't get up, I can at least write myself.
41:47Well, you may write it,
41:49but it'll be a week at least before you read it.
41:53When he'd smiled at me,
41:56I felt the flare of the hot old love that was gone.
42:01And I took him the pencil and paper to quiet him.
42:04I stood by him a while as he wrote.
42:07Till at last he looked up.
42:10His eyes far from me again.
42:16So I turned to my work with a daft, dull pain.
42:20Daft ever to think that that could come by.
42:31Oh, Chris.
42:32Shhh.
42:33I tried to sleep and I couldn't.
42:34Shhh.
42:35Hot.
42:36I felt choked.
42:37Opened the window and I slept.
42:38Oh, Robert.
42:39Robert, the room's ice cold.
42:40My bad.
42:41My sermon.
42:42Where's it gone?
42:43Where's it gone?
42:44Where's it gone?
42:45Where's it gone?
42:46Where's it gone?
42:47Where's it gone?
42:48Where's it gone?
42:49Where's it gone?
42:50Where's it gone?
42:51Oh, Robert.
42:52Oh, Robert.
42:53Oh, Robert.
42:54Oh, Robert.
42:55Robert, the room's ice cold.
42:56Oh, Robert.
42:57Robert, the room's ice cold.
42:58Oh, Robert.
42:59Oh, Robert.
43:00Oh, Robert.
43:01Oh, Robert.
43:02My bad.
43:03My sermon.
43:04Where's it gone?
43:05There's something queer in Mr. Cajun's lungs.
43:21The cold hasn't entered him yet.
43:23Was he ever cast in the water, you know?
43:25Yes, he was.
43:27I suspect it as much.
43:29There's the strangest contraction in both upper lungs.
43:33I'll be back fairly early in the morning.
43:34Keep him in bed and keep him warm.
43:39I was wondering how the minister was.
43:40I heard you the doctor, and he's been here near every day.
43:45I'm afraid the minister's in a guy bad way, John.
43:48Then I'd best I way up to the kirk and tell the congregation
43:50there won't be a service.
43:52Not one next Sunday, either, by the looks of it.
43:57Robert! What are you doing up?
44:00I'm alright. I must take the service.
44:02Oh, Robert, go back to your bed now. You must!
44:04No, I'll take the service as usual. There's nothing in a cough to stop me.
44:07It's more than a cough!
44:08I have something to say to the folk!
44:13Robert.
44:16For me.
44:18I've never asked much.
44:21For me.
44:24And I'll never ask another thing.
44:27Will you please go back?
44:35It's you or the kirk, Chris.
44:40And I'm the kirk's man.
44:41I'm the kirk's man.
44:54All right.
44:57Here's your coat.
44:58Chris.
44:58My dear...
45:08Dear...
45:10Chris.
45:11Chris, my dear, dear Chris.
45:41Go with him. I'll come as soon as ever I'm dressed.
45:46We will now sing Psalm number 23.
46:16I'll come as soon as ever.
46:46I'll come as soon as ever.
46:53My text is from the 23rd chapter of St. Luke, verse 42.
47:03And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
47:13It is 1900 years since that cry was heard.
47:20It is 1600 years since the Holy Catholic Church was established in temporal power.
47:26In the early days after the death of Christ, his return was hourly awaited.
47:33His followers, scanty, assured, looked to his coming within a few months or years at the most.
47:42They were certain he would come again to redeem the evil of the world that had murdered him.
47:49And the years went by, and he tarried still.
47:54But that hope and that promise it was that bore the cross to triumph at last in Rome and all over Europe and that uplifts it still.
48:05And still the Christ tarries and the world remains.
48:12In Saget, a week ago tonight, in this Christian village, a man and a woman were driven from their home.
48:32They had no place to lay their home and they had no place to lay their head.
48:36In the night, a rat came and fed on their child, eating its flesh in a sacrament of hunger.
48:50Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
48:59In the years when the great war ended, the world seemed to turn in its sleep and awake.
49:05A new promise cried all about the earth.
49:08The promise of the Christ fulfilled in man.
49:11Fulfilled in those movements of pity and of hope that men called by many names, meaning the same.
49:19Against ignoble oppression and bitter tyranny, the common people banded themselves at last in a Christ-like rage of pity
49:28to defend their brothers who sweated their blood in the mines, to give warmth and light and ease to us all.
49:37And the leaders of the great nine days, filled with the anger and the pity of the Christ who drove the money changers from the temple courts, looked in their hearts and found fear there.
49:54Heard the crunch of the nails driven in through the shrinking hands of the Christ.
50:01And they sold him again, his promise in man, each for their thirty pieces of silver.
50:12Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
50:21This year, when hunger and poverty filled the land, the counsellors of the nation told for our guidance that more hunger and poverty yet must come.
50:31An increasing of stripes in the name of law, good government, order in this Christian land, in this nineteenth century since the Christ died and came into the kingdom of the soul that the churches proclaim he came into.
50:47Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
50:54And it was about the sixth hour and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
51:02And the sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
51:10So, we see it seems, in the darkening of the sun and the rending of the veils in the temples and kurgs.
51:23The end of mankind himself in the west.
51:28Or at least the end of the strangest dream that men have ever dreamed.
51:33Of both the God and the man who is Christ.
51:40Who gave the world a hope that passes and goeth about like the wind.
51:49And like it returns and follows fulfilling nothing.
51:56There is no hope for the world at all.
52:01As I, the least of his followers, see.
52:05Except it forget the dream of the Christ.
52:11Forget the creeds they forged in his shadow when their primal faith in the God was loosed.
52:16And turn and seek with unclouded eyes, not that sad vision that leaves hunger unfed.
52:22The wail of children in the unending dark.
52:26The cry of human flesh eaten by beasts.
52:29But a stark, sure creed that will cut like a knife.
52:35A surgeon's knife through the doubt and disease.
52:39Men with unclouded eyes may yet find it.
52:54And some night, far off in times to be,
53:01On an earth at peace, living and joyous.
53:11The Christ come back.
53:17Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
53:47It is finished.
54:00The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about unto the north.
54:09It whirleth aloud continually, and the wind returneth again, according to his circuits.
54:19Standing there, I minded the way that Robert would bless the folk of Seget on Sabbath.
54:28And queerly, my hands shaped into that gesture.
54:38Then that had finished, and I went down the bray.
54:45Only once did I look back at the frown of the hills,
54:50And caught my breath at that sight they held.
54:54Seeing them bare of their clouds for once,
54:57The pillars of mist that I crowned their heights,
55:01All but a faint wisp vanishing south,
55:05And the bare still rocks, upturned to the sky.
55:10If my south were just ticking,
55:12And all the mountains come down.
55:13To the face of the north.
55:15And I fell to breastinum,
55:16TheyÎλiave,
55:18Sean Nnam therefores.
55:19In any country.
55:20For years,
55:21Booker andchussby,
55:23Post sport rooms,
55:24Authorities,
55:25To the floor.
55:26Ere Brandon,
55:27To the center.
55:28Are you ready?
55:29Or maybe you're ready?
55:30The house,
55:32And how did you play?
55:33Or are you Casey风van?
55:34That was never done.
55:35So,
55:36How was it going?
55:37¶¶
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