One Snowy Night

The story of the following pages is one of the least known yet saddest episodes in English history—the first persecution of Christians by Christians in this land. When Boniface went forth from England to evangelize Germany, he was received with welcome, and regarded as a saint: when Gerhardt came from Germany to restore the pure Gospel to England, he was cast out of the vineyard and slain. The spirit of her who is drunk with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus is the same now that it was then. She does not ask if a man agrees with the Word of God, but whether he agrees with her. «When the Church has spoken»—this has been said by exalted ecclesiastical lips quite recently—"we cannot appeal to Scripture against her!"