or for yet greater powers of faithful endurance, replaced by songs of thanksgiving woven into magnificent liturgies-the external accessories of divine worship worthy of men who had learned from the teaching of Moses and Solomon, and had taken their models from Jerusalem, the cradle of Christianity, as well as from "things in the heavens," respecting which St John had given such glorious revelations.

In these early times of refreshing, no less than in those of conflict and trial, which ever and anon returned to purify the Church, the burden of the song of her enemies continued the same, "See how these Christians love one another!"

Eight hundred years and more beheld her as a rock, unshaken in her fidelity both to her God. and to herself. Eight hundred years and upwards bore testimony to her unity, made up as she was of a multitude of all nations and people and tongues. Alas, for the day when that glorious unity was lost, and the long undivided Church was rent asunder, and persecutions, and consequent recriminations, came, not from the hand of the common enemy, but her foes were those of her own household!

It is not with points of doctrine, nor with questions concerning the relative purity of the three great portions of the Christian family, that this little volume has to deal.

Christ's great "law of love" has been more or less broken by all; and thus, each branch of His divided Church respectively should acknowledge

her sin, as the first returning step to ultimate and blessed reunion.

It is not by intolerance and persecution that we shall make our brother see, what we may each respectively consider "the error of his ways," nor ourselves recover a long-lost likeness to Him whom we know as "the Prince of Peace." It is not by ever blazoning abroad his misdeeds towards us, while bragging of our own martyrs, as if none other than ours existed, that we shall further the fulfilment of our Master's will, who is that brother's Saviour no less than our own.

An acknowledgment of our evil deeds, and that we have verily and indeed been guilty towards him," involves no compromise of principle in regard to our respective points of faith, while much edification may be derived from the holy lives, and sublime self-sacrifice for conscience' sake, of many saints whom we, in our blind and diabolic intolerance, persecuted even to the death.

The object of the compiler of these brief records is a twofold one

To hold up a mirror, that we may see ourselves in our hideous deformity, as breakers of this "law of love," puffed up, as we undoubtedly are, with the grossest, because the most unjustifiable, spiritual pride.

It is also to edify the reader with records of the power of faith in many a last conflict, and with exemplifications of the working of that "law of love," enabling the sufferer to forgive the persecutor, who, like a second Cain, imbrued his hands in his brother's blood.

The chronicles of Dr Lingard, Dr Dod, Dr Challoner, Brady, Froude, Hume, Stowe, Butler, Oliver, Burnet, Hallam, and Moran are amongst the sources from whence this compilation has been made; and facts corroborated by such a mass of united testimony may be received as undoubtedly authentic.

The civilization of this nineteenth century precludes, between Christians, the use of the rack, the faggot, or the gallows, the despoiling of goods, and banishment to a foreign soil. Yet the same intolerant spirit that stimulated our forefathers to deeds of infamy, under the cloak of a religious motive, still shows its demon-head in our midst; and we should do well to "look unto the rock whence we were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence we were digged."

To promote, each in his own little sphere, the reunion of Christendom, should be the object of our highest ambition; a reunion to be gradually effected and perfected by a mutual closer approximation to the doctrines of the primitive and yet undivided Church.

In her three great branches a desire for, and an effort to attain, this reunion is obviously manifest.

The "dry bones in the valley" are already "shaking," ere long to "come together, bone to his bone," so long dead in sympathy, and dead in effort to restore the lost unity.

Oh, let the prayer of the faithful be daily this, "Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live!"

MARTYRS OMITTED BY FOXE:

BEING

RECORDS OF ELIZABETHAN AND OTHER
SUFFERERS for their RELIGION.

IN Hallam's "Constitutional History of England," we are told that "the rack seldom stood idle for all the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign." The Roman Catholic martyrs under her amounted to no inconsiderable number. Dod reckons them at 191. Milner has raised the list to 204. Fifteen of these, according to him, suffered for denying the Queen's supremacy, 126 for exercising their ministry, the rest for being reconciled to the Roman Church.

Many others died of hardships in prison; many, deprived of their property, were banished, mutilated, condemned to be burnt, and reprieved.

Dr Bridgewater gives the names of about 1200 who had suffered in this manner before the year 1588, that is, before the greatest heat of the persecution, and yet declares that he is far from pretending to have named all, but only such whose

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sufferings had come to his knowledge. In this list there are 3 archbishops (2 being of Ireland), 18 bishops (consecrated or elected), 1 abbot, 4 whole convents of religious, 13 deans, 14 archdeacons, 60 prebendaries, 530 priests, 49 doctors of divinity, 18 doctors of the law, 15 masters of colleges, 1 queen, 18 peers, 26 knights, 326 gentlemen, and about 60 peeresses and gentlewomen. Many of these died in prison, several under sentence of death.

In Stowe's Chronicles," we find that 4000 peasants were massacred for not accepting Protestantism, under Lord John Russell, in Devonshire; and from two to five thousand, under the Earl of Warwick, in Norfolk.

Hume says that “645 monasteries, 90 colleges, 2374 chantries and free chapels, and 110 hospitals, were ruined under Henry VIII., while the magnificent cathedral of Coventry was, amongst others, annihilated under Edward VI.”

The following is a list of the Roman Catholic bishops deprived in the time of Queen Elizabeth. We make the extract from the original "Church History of England," by Dr Dod, published at Brussels, 1739, 2nd vol., p. 6 :—

"The Catholic bishops having made a fruitless opposition in favour of their religion, were soon after put to the test of the new Oath of Supremacy.” (Fuller, in his Church History, b. 9, p. 59, says that only one bishop conformed himself to the Queen's commands, and was continued in his