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Excerpt from The English Martyrology, Vol. 1 of 2: Abridged From Fox Who does not love, at the calm still hour of evening, to pace around some venerable church, marking the dents and fissures in its Old grey stone-work, which tell how many an age it has withstood the shocks Of time; to gaze upon the outline of its antique tower, or tapering spire, as they rise towards heaven - a lively type Of hope resting on faith's foundation - and then to glance upon the neighbour ing yew or elm, coeval in date with its hallowed companion? There is that in the fashion Of our Old churches, and the scenery generally surrounding them, which appeals alike to devotional and national feeling; and 'could We with draw from these venerable piles the oblivious veil cast over their history by the supine thanklessness of successive gen erafions, we should view in each of them an emphatic me morial, a victorious trophy of the war waged by popery against the Lamb: of the might whereby He who is King of kings and Lord of lords overcame his blasphemous as sailant; and Of the deeds Of his called, and chosen, and faithful followers, Whose voice from within those walls sent forth the sound of the gospel trumpet, through thelength and breadth of the land. They watched, perchance, the young growth Of those trees, with prayerful aspirations that they might wave, as now they do, over a remote genera tion Of peaceful worshippers. From these very trees, it may be, a Sprouting twig was snatched, to serve as a torch for kindling the flames Of their martyrdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.