. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . mm. John Knox in St. Giles, Edinburgh. serxice. His effort was a failure, for he was assailedby the crowd, and such was the din of cries from withinand withcul lliai he ga\e uj) the attempt to restoreorder, and, assisted by the magistrates present, wasglad to make his escape. \\ hat was the cause of this riot in the of staid old bjlinburgh? The tiling happened INTRODUCTORY. ii on July 23, 1637, and this is how it came about: Formore than fifty years Scotland had been Knox
. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . mm. John Knox in St. Giles, Edinburgh. serxice. His effort was a failure, for he was assailedby the crowd, and such was the din of cries from withinand withcul lliai he ga\e uj) the attempt to restoreorder, and, assisted by the magistrates present, wasglad to make his escape. \\ hat was the cause of this riot in the of staid old bjlinburgh? The tiling happened INTRODUCTORY. ii on July 23, 1637, and this is how it came about: Formore than fifty years Scotland had been Knox and his helpers had completed the work ofchanging Scotland from Roman Catholicism to thestrictest Presbyterianism. It had been a long andbloody struggle, and victory was gained not withoutmany a martyrdom among the Presbyterian harder the ])attle the people have to fight to winanything, the more they appreciate it. So the Scotchfelt that their pure religion, simple worship, and theliberty that had cost so much to get, were worth fight-ing to keep. At the time of Jenny Ged
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