Fatherhood Quote by Donald Cargill

A man being hunted for his faith doesn’t waste words on spiritual self-improvement. Cargill’s sentence moves like a set of last instructions, because it practically is: he was a Scottish Covenanter preacher, driven into the fields by a state-church crackdown, and eventually executed. That pressure shows in the urgency of the verbs: “seek,” “find,” “let your last act be.” This isn’t gentle devotional counsel; it’s survival theology.

The specific intent is to steer anxious believers away from the trap of treating religion as a scorecard. “Whatever ye find for the present” acknowledges the messy reality of introspection: you might find sincerity, doubt, fear, even hypocrisy. Cargill preempts despair by insisting that the final move is not to present your findings to God like a résumé, but to “lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son.” The phrasing is legal and physical at once: righteousness as a covering, Christ as a refuge. In a world where courts and oaths could get you killed, the subtext is unmistakable: stop bargaining; stop performing; stop trying to argue your way to safety.

“Expecting life through His name” also carries a coded defiance. “Life” here is both salvation and a taunt to the scaffold: the state can take your body, not your promised future. By grounding that expectation “according to the promise of the Father,” Cargill anchors hope not in mood or merit but in an unbreakable contract. It works rhetorically because it meets terror with clarity: your last act is not heroism, but surrender to a righteousness you cannot manufacture.