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NOBLE ANSWER OF A MARTYR

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 4.

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NOBLE ANSWER OF A MARTYR.

"Do you love your wife and your children, and will you not recant for all these?" said an Inquisitor, in the time of the Netherlands persecution, to a poor schoolmaster who had been arrested for Bible-reading. "God knows," answered the poor schoolmaster, "that were the earth a globe of gold, and the stars all pearls, and they my own, I would give them all to have my wife and children with me, though I must live on bread and water, and in bondage; yet neither for life, nor wife, nor earth, nor stars, can I renounce Jesus, my Redeemer." Was the heart of the Inquisitor moved? No! He only racked his victim till he died.