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Stories of Holy Men and Women, by the Author of 'Hymns and Scenes of Childhood'.

Stories of Holy Men and Women, by the Author of 'Hymns and Scenes of Childhood'.

Leeson, Jane Eliza

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ISBN10: 1151404772
ISBN13: 9781151404770
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1850 Excerpt: ... more iROBABLY but few of the many persons who daily pass by the old Church at Greenwich, in Kent, are acquainted with the touching story connected with it. It was here that, than eight centuries ago, a Saxon Archbishop bore faithful witness for the truth, and nobly refused to buy his life with gold to be wrung from the cruelly oppressed and plundered people of his diocese, or to give such counsel to his sovereign; but instead of earthly riches, he told of heavenly treasure, more to be desired than gold, yea, than much fine gold, and of the wrath denounced upon all who reject or despise the proffered riches of Christ, and for this he was barbarously put to death by the idolatrous and infuriated Danes. The now common designation of the parish Church of S. Alphage, as simply the old Church, may have helped on the ignorance that prevails as to the martyr's name, as well as story, but of all such forgetfulness the beginning must be traced to a deeper source. Well is it for us that there is One Who remembers our sleeping brethren, though we ungratefully forget those to whose labours and whose prayers we owe so much. Yea, there is One Who, like Boaz the near kinsman, hath not left off His kindness to the living and to the dead, yet I shall not have written in vain, if by so doing I recal to the memory of some the story of a Saint of old. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints, and surely the spot which has been moistened with a martyr's blood, ought to be unto us as holy ground, not to be passed lightly by, or without a prayerful thought of the souls under the altar who cry, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? The present Church, which is said like the former to be...

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