How Jesus Christ Saves .... CONTENTS. 114 THE PENNY POST BOX. Christ's Willingness to Save 114 Two Great Events...... 9, 20 The Festival of the Ass 115 .... The Wonderful Book. 126 Inconsistency, or the Jew and ........ ....... .... 34 45 58 Trust in the Lord" ........ 81 Religion Hallows Everything The Day of Rest..... it Touches A Beautiful Suggestion A Poetic Epistle to a Friend ........ 127 127 Have you lost a Child by Death? 94 117 ..... 135 135 138 ........ FACTS. Look up! Who sees you?.. The Highland Fishermen.... The Cheerful Behaviour of the The Church of Rome is Aggressive... FACTS, HINTS, AND GEMS. Pages-10, 21, 34, 46, 59, 70, HINTS. 137 Pages 10, 22, 35, 46, 59, 82, God only is to be worshipped 137 heaven 137 Sounding the last trumpet.... 137 Danger of Worldly Possessions 137 THE FIRESIDE. GEMS. Pages-11, 22, 35, 47, 59, 71, What do you talk about? The Queen of Home 8 33 44 My Sister's Grave 36 57 A Hard-working Lad 48 68 Remember God 60 80 To my Departed Brother 72 80 Design of Family Bereavements 92 103 116 Prize Essays in Sabbath Schools 84 The Months of the Year My Mother .... Jesus and Little Children. 84 .... 96 108 108 ....... • 120 132 The Faded Flower 132 A Curious old Recipe..... 128 ............ WEYNKEN CLAES' DAUGHTER, Of Monickendam, a widow, was put to death, and burned at the Hague, November 20, A.D. 1527. On the 15th of November, 1527, Weynken Claes' daughter was brought a prisoner to the Hague, from the castle of Woerden. Count Von Hoogstraten, Stadtholder of Holland, arrived there the 17th of the same month. On the 18th, the said Weynken was brought before the Stadtholder and the great council. A woman asked her, "Have you slept upon and well considered the things my lords laid before you?" Answer: "I abide firmly by what I have said.” [Her Examination.] Question: "If you do not speak and turn away from your error, an intolerable death awaits you." Ans. "If the power is given you from above, I am prepared to suffer." Qu. "Are you not then afraid of death which you have not tasted?" Ans. "True; but I shall never taste of death, for Christ says: 'If any man keep my words, he shall never taste of death.' The rich man tastes of death, and shall for ever taste thereof." Qu. "What do you hold concerning the sacrament?" An.“I hold your sacrament to be flour and bread, and where you hold it to be a God, I say that it is your devil." Qu. "What do you think concerning the saints?" Ans. "I know no other mediator than Christ." Qu. "You must die if you hold to this." Ans. "I am already dead." Qu. "You are dead?how then can you speak?" Ans. "The Spirit lives in me; the Lord is in me, and I am in him." Qu. "Will you have a confessor or not?" Ans. "I have Christ, to him I confess; but, nevertheless, if I have offended any one, I will gladly entreat him to forgive me." Qu. “Who has taught you this opinion?—and how have you come by it?" Ans. "The Lord, who calls all men to him: I am one of his sheep; therefore, I hear his voice." Qu."Are you alone then called?" Ans. "Oh no! for the Lord calls to him all that are heavy laden." After many other such words, Weynken was again led to the dungeon, and during the two following days was entreated and tempted by many persons, namely, by monks, priests, and women, and by her nearest friends. Among others, came also WEYNKEN CLAES' DAUGHTER. a woman, in her simplicity, and condoled with her in the following manner: "Dear mother! can you not think as you please, and be silent; so that you should not die?" Then Weynken answered, saying: "Dear sister, I am commanded and compelled to speak, so that I cannot be silent." Qu. "I fear then that they will kill you." Ans. "Whether to-morrow they burn me, or put me in a sack, that is all one to me. If it be the Lord's appointment, it must come to pass: not otherwise. I will cleave to the Lord." Qu. If you have done nothing else, I hope that you will not die." Ans. "To me it is indifferent; but on descending from the hall, I weep much. It distresses me to see all these clever men so blinded. pray to the Lord for them." 66 I will There came also two black or Dominican friars to her; the one as father confessor, the other as an instructor. He placed the crucifix before her, and said, "See, here is the Lord your God." She answered, "That is not my God. It is another cross by which I am redeemed. That is a wooden God; throw it into the fire, and warm yourselves by it." The other asked her, if on the same morning she was to die, she would not receive the sacrament; he would readily give it her. She said, "What God would you give me; one that is perishable, that is bought for a farthing, or a doit?" To the priest, or monk, who rejoiced that he had that day performed mass, she said, that "he had crucified God afresh." He said, "Methinks you are beside yourself." Weynken answered, "That I cannot help; the Lord my God, to whom be eternal honour, praise, and thanks, has given it me so to be." Question. "What do you think of the holy unction?" Answer. “Oil is good in a salad, or to smear your shoes with." In the middle of the week she was brought into court, As she came into the hall, the monk went to her, holding the crucifix before her face, and saying, "Recant before the sentence is pronounced." But Weynken turned away from the crucifix, saying, "I cleave to my Lord and my God. Neither death, nor life, shall separate me from him." As she stood before the judge, the monk whispered in her ear, saying, "Fall upon your knees, and pray to the Lord for mercy.' She answered, “Be still, have I not told you that you shall not draw me from my Lord." The dean of Maeldwyk, sub-commissary and inquisitor, read the sentence from a letter in Latin, and repeated it in Dutch. He stated briefly, that she had been found holding a false faith |