Christian herald and signs of our times . s anything we can do for them doublypleasant to do. We can help them because weare humane and pity them, but none enjoy theluxury of giving like those who give becausethey love Jesus. I am glad to see you are learn-ing how noble self-sacrifice is. Get a step higherand you will find there is no happiness in theworld that compares with it. Now, come andmake your offering, and we will pray that yourlife may be fruitful in many others. As an oldman I envy you your opportunity. God grantyou may have wisdom to make the best of it, THE CAPTURE OF JEFFREYS. (S
Christian herald and signs of our times . s anything we can do for them doublypleasant to do. We can help them because weare humane and pity them, but none enjoy theluxury of giving like those who give becausethey love Jesus. I am glad to see you are learn-ing how noble self-sacrifice is. Get a step higherand you will find there is no happiness in theworld that compares with it. Now, come andmake your offering, and we will pray that yourlife may be fruitful in many others. As an oldman I envy you your opportunity. God grantyou may have wisdom to make the best of it, THE CAPTURE OF JEFFREYS. (See Illustration on this page.) The infamy earned by George, Lord Jeffreysrenders his name a by-word for judicial villainyin every land where the English language isspoken. He was a protege of King James II.,the most despicable king of a despicable worst of all the Stuarts found in Jeffreys afit instrument for his purposes, and in 1684 madehim Lord Chief-Justice of England. He hadlittle legal learning, but an abundance of impu-. The Capture of Judge Jeffreys. dence, and was coarse and brutal in mind andbody. His violence was dreaded when he wassober, which was very seldom, but when he wasdrunk, as he generally was when he was on thebench, he was a terror to lawyers, prosecutors,and prisoners. The eminent Richard Baxter was once placedon trial before him, and Jeffreys, who boastedthat he could deal with saints as well as sin-ners, exhausted his vocabulary of abuse on thegreat and good man who stood before the jury gave their verdict, Jeffreys calledhim a dog, a factious knave, an old rogue, anda hypocritical villain, who ought to be whippedat the carts tail. Three eminent lawyers ap-peared in Baxters defence, but Jeffreys silencedthem successively by a torrent of vituperation,and would not even allow the prisoner to speakfor himself or a witness to speak for him. Jeffreys was the hero of the Bloody Assize,in which he went from town to town holding hiscourt,
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