. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. n Brotherhood, Suffering and banishmentfor Christs sake turned strangers into spiritualkinsmen, to be protected, to be cherished; if needwere, even to be housed and fed, and poor indeedwas the godly burgher who had not welcomed somepoorer refugee into his cheerful household. Therewas scarcely a language in Europe but might havebeen heard in the streets of Geneva. Many of the strangers were men of birth andstation, scholars, skilled craftsmen, deft brought to the hospitable little town whatmoney alone could never have bought—the amenitiesof
. The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon people. n Brotherhood, Suffering and banishmentfor Christs sake turned strangers into spiritualkinsmen, to be protected, to be cherished; if needwere, even to be housed and fed, and poor indeedwas the godly burgher who had not welcomed somepoorer refugee into his cheerful household. Therewas scarcely a language in Europe but might havebeen heard in the streets of Geneva. Many of the strangers were men of birth andstation, scholars, skilled craftsmen, deft brought to the hospitable little town whatmoney alone could never have bought—the amenitiesof culture, the wisdom of civic experience, theprosperity of new industries. Geneva in her turn wasgrateful, and too noble to feel a twinge of beautiful simplicity of mind, she made herrefugees fellow - citizens. Up to the summer of1555—when, by the way, the English congregationnumbered two hundred communicants—as many asone hundred and forty foreign names, some of themstill famous, were inscribed on her John Knox. Anglo-Saxon People ** Several earls and peers of England/ wrote one of her historians, may as rightly boast of being citizens of Geneva as Paul did of being a citizen of Rome. As the traveller of to-day tries to conjure up the dim old streets of the city of the exile, a score of shadowy forms arise, and the first to challenge recognition is not Calvin, or Beza, or any less notable person than the newly - appointed pastor of the Enghsh church in Geneva, the last of the preachers heard in Marian England. For seven months, as the voices of the Reformation fell into dead silence, the voice of this man went sounding on. An alert man of fifty, one takes him to be, with clear, intrepid eyes and tawny beard silvering—not at all like the commonly accepted portraits of him. In King Edwards reign he was one of the royal chaplains; might have been Rector of All Hallows, Bread Street;^ might even have been Bishop of Rochester, had he felt Gods l
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