Wherefore was he not there with the rest of us ?" It was Freda who, after a pause, made answer: "He knew that men would not distinguish between the burning of books by men and the burning of the precious Word of God.

It was this that held him back." "Yea, verily," cried Dalaber, with a blaze of his old excitement, "he was true to his conscience, and we were not.

He knew that those who saw that procession would regard it as an admission of heresy.
He was no heretic, and he would have neither part nor lot with it.
He has ever stood firm in this--that the church of the living God is pure and holy, and that she asks no such acts of submission and recantation from her sons, when their only desire has been to extol Him and to make His way clear upon earth.

How could his pure and holy spirit make confession of evil?
He could not, and he would not.

He will lay down his life for the gospel's sake; but he will not be deceived, as we were.
"I can see it now as I could not when the walls of prison and the mists of fever were closing me in.