. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. for main-taining that God alone, not the priest,had power to forgive sins. The in-quisitor asked them to confess thatthey had been seduced by Luther:they answered, As the Apostleswere seduced by Christ. They werepublicly burned July ist, 1523, re-peating, the Creed and calling on their Master. In their honor Luther wrotea poem which passes for the first of his hymns ; part of it is familiar in afree English version: Flung to the heedless winds, or on the waters cast,Their
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. for main-taining that God alone, not the priest,had power to forgive sins. The in-quisitor asked them to confess thatthey had been seduced by Luther:they answered, As the Apostleswere seduced by Christ. They werepublicly burned July ist, 1523, re-peating, the Creed and calling on their Master. In their honor Luther wrotea poem which passes for the first of his hymns ; part of it is familiar in afree English version: Flung to the heedless winds, or on the waters cast,Their ashes shall be watched and gathered at the last ;And from that scattered dust, around us and abroad,Shall spring a plenteous seed of witnesses for God. Jesus hath now received their latest living breath ; Yet vain is Satans boast of victory in their death. Still, still, though dead, they speak, and trumpet- tongued proclaim To many a wakening land the one availing Name. Thirteen years later, and within a few miles of the same spot, perishedin like manner a famous man of God, the greatest of all English translators of. LUTHERS CELL. ERFURT. 320 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. tlie Bible. William Tyndales work was done under heavy difficulties, but it in-cludes the New Testament and half the Old; thus far it is not only the basisof those portions of the Authorized Version, but constitutes nine-tenths of last ten years of his life, so far as we know, were spent on the continent,and largely in concealment; for the hunters of heresy from his native land werealways on his track. One of these blood-hounds found him at last at Antwerp,and, after claiming his hospitality and borrowing some money of him, betrayedhiin to the authorities. He was taken to the castle of Vilvorde, and thereburned October 6th, 1536, having first been mercifully strangled. His lastwords were among the noblest and most pathetic ever uttered: Lord, open theking of Englands eyes!
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