Category: Biographies
_THE APOSTLE OF ENGLAND; OR, THE MAN WHO IS FORGOTTEN BECAUSE OF HIS SUCCESS._ PAGE “PUT IT ON THE SHELF!”--A BLANK WORLD--CLEVERNESS NO CREDIT--THE FARMER’S SON--NEW LIGHT FROM THE OLD CHRONICLES--THE MIDNIGHT DARKNESS AND THE MORNING STAR 1
_THE APOSTLE OF ENGLAND; OR, THE MAN WHO IS FORGOTTEN BECAUSE OF HIS SUCCESS._ PAGE “PUT IT ON THE SHELF!”--A BLANK WORLD--CLEVERNESS NO CREDIT--THE FARMER’S SON--NEW LIGHT FROM...
2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.LEAVES WORMS FOR MARBURG--FARTHER FROM ROME, YET NEARER TO THE TRUTH--“THE WICKED MAMMON” AND “THE OBEDIENCE OF A CHRISTIAN MAN”--READ BY KING HENRY--“THE PRACTICE OF PRELATES”-...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER I.“How seldom, friend, a good, great man inherits Honour or wealth, with all his toil and pains! It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he m...
12. CHAPTER II.At an early age William Tyndale was sent to Oxford, where he was entered at Magdalen Hall. Here we can perhaps picture him from the words of Thomas Lever, who in a sermon which...
13. CHAPTER III.Tyndale came to London (probably about 1523) provided with a letter of introduction to Sir Harry Guildford, the Controller of the Royal Household, and a great favourite with the...
14. CHAPTER IV.“The Scriptures have a might and magnificence all their own; How comforting are its promises, how precious are its precepts! How wise and kind and pure and good its influence on...
15. CHAPTER V.“This Book, this Holy Book, in every line Marked with the seal of high Divinity, On every leaf bedewed with drops of love Divine and with the eternal heraldry And signature of G...
16. xviii. 19-27:--“_Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree_ in _earth_ in _any_ manner _thing_ whatsoever _they shall_ desire, _it shall be_ given _them of my Father which is in hea...
17. CHAPTER VI.“Many are the sayings of the wise, Extolling patience as the truest fortitude, But with the afflicted in his pangs their sound Little prevails, ... unless he feel within Some so...
18. CHAPTER VII.“Thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee; ... we are selfish men. Oh! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.”
19. CHAPTER VIII.“The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to avenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary’s heart to him doth tie. And ’tis a fairer conque...
20. CHAPTER IX.“Be still, fond heart, nor ask thy fate to know; Face bravely what each God-sent moment brings; Above thee rules in love, through weal and woe, Guiding thy king and thee, the Ki...
21. CHAPTER X.“He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain Can touch him not and torture not again; He is secure, and now can never mourn.”