. Men and women of deep piety. rather to set a good example of suffering patience before hisconstituency. Sometimes he was let out without bail, as theofficers knew that at the appointed court he would appear. Their sufferings were not confined to the old came to America to settle here or to propagate theirteachings. The Puritans of New England, who sought re-lief from oppression on our shores, had not learned the lessonof granting to others the religious liberty they desired forthemselves. Some of the Quakers were publicly put to death,many were cruelly banished, others imprisone
. Men and women of deep piety. rather to set a good example of suffering patience before hisconstituency. Sometimes he was let out without bail, as theofficers knew that at the appointed court he would appear. Their sufferings were not confined to the old came to America to settle here or to propagate theirteachings. The Puritans of New England, who sought re-lief from oppression on our shores, had not learned the lessonof granting to others the religious liberty they desired forthemselves. Some of the Quakers were publicly put to death,many were cruelly banished, others imprisoned and fined, orpublicly whipped. In 1690 the Toleration Act was passed, and persecu-tions ceased. It was granted to secure favor with Catholics;nevertheless it brought untold relief to God*s oppressed butfaithful followers. Imprisonment, suffering and privation broke down the ironconstitution of Fox. He died at the early age of hair had become white and thin, his voice feeble, his stephalting, as a very aged Madam Guyon MADAM GUYON Lives of ?rent (\vo)mpn all remind us We ni:iy mnke our lives sublime,And flopMrtinfiT. leave heliinrl n«;Footprints iu the sands of time. SOME persons are great because they reflect the spirit ofthe age in which they Ive. They ride upon the crest ofpublic opinion, and become noted because they gve audienceand expression to the pubic will. In such persons there oftenis a good degree of merit. But how much mere honor should be credited to one who,in a dark and forbidding age, stems the downward trend, andout of prevailing darkness sends forth the gleams of a saintlyand triumphant life! Such an one was Madam Guyon. She was born in 1648into a wealthy and professedly pious French famly. It wasa period of corrupt rule in France. The black mantle ofRoman Catholccism smothered all true Divine life in thehearts of its devotees. Riot, Sabbath-breaking and in^delityheld sway. The church walked in hand-clasp with theworld, while saintliness
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