The Breakers of the Yoke Sketches And Studies of the Men And Scenes of the Ref
The Breakers of the Yoke Sketches And Studies of the Men And Scenes of the Ref
J S Macintosh
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how many such fights didst thou wage that we might not be " urged with that idolatrie " ! But the galley's chains, hard toil, foul air, scant food and untold cruelties well-nigh wrought what the Boa- THK FATHER OF SCOTLAND. 293 touns' daggers failed to compass — his death. Knox, who stepped out of the castle a healthy and vigorous freeman, lies now a wasted slave, at the very point of death with galley-fever. His friends, Henry Balnaves and James Balfour, almost broken-hearted, carry him on dec...k, to die, if not on his native land, at least with it in sight. It is in the gray dawn of a summer morn ; they gently raise the dying man, turn his face to the land, — to which for its continued oppression the galley-slaves had just brought the French ships and troops to fight England for the pope and the Guise ; they direct the dimming eyes to the steeples of the town, and ask him if he knows the land and the town. The wasted form thrills and stiffens ; the livid ftice flushes ; the eyes fix themselves and steadily brighten ; God has touched him, and John Knox says, " I know it well, for I see the steeple of that place where God first opened my mouth in public to his glory, and I am fully per- suaded, how weak that ever I now appear, I shall not depart this life till my tongue shall glorify his holy name in the same place.
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