. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. re of themselves whether they would be releasedor no/ At home and abroad England was in a positionwhich called for the insight, courage, and moderationof great statesmanship, and, happily, these were notwanting in the young Queen and her Ministers. Thecountry was at war with France. In Philip of Spain,her late sisters husband, there was the possibilityof a still more dangerous enemy. The fierce oldPope, Paul IV., had already insulted her, andreminded Christendom that heretical princes wereincapable of reigning. At home the need for areligious settlement
. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. re of themselves whether they would be releasedor no/ At home and abroad England was in a positionwhich called for the insight, courage, and moderationof great statesmanship, and, happily, these were notwanting in the young Queen and her Ministers. Thecountry was at war with France. In Philip of Spain,her late sisters husband, there was the possibilityof a still more dangerous enemy. The fierce oldPope, Paul IV., had already insulted her, andreminded Christendom that heretical princes wereincapable of reigning. At home the need for areligious settlement was urgent; and the pageantsof London, quaint and unreal as they now appear tous, were a pressing request for immediate action. Within a fortnight of the coronation this vital matter engaged the attention of her first Parliament. After stormy opposition from the Marian prelates and a number of the temporal peers, the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Crown was re-established and the constitution of the National Church restored, with a 96. n u Anglo-Saxon People revised liturgy which was intended to conciliatemoderate men of all parties. A few hundred personsrefused the oath of spiritual obedience, but the greatbody of the people acceded to the new order ofthings, in which adhesion to the unreformed faithwas compatible with allegiance to the throne. The four Evangelists and St. Paul were set atliberty; a fresh enactment replaced the Great Biblein the parish churches; and in 1560 the Queenaccepted from her ** humble subjects of the EnglishChurch at Geneva the dedication of the new versionwhich was to take its place for nearly a century in thehome life of the people. Behind that version lay one of the worlds splendidstories. In 1535 Geneva had destroyed its pleasantsuburbs, manned its walls with a handful of citizensoldiers, renounced the Pope, shut its gates againstthe Duke of Savoy, and defied the Emperor the days of Thermopylae free men had beheldno such soul-stirri
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