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Rh the blaze of the torch which was to kindle the martyr's pile. Thinking on all this—on Patrick Hamilton, on Henry Forrest, on George Wishart, and on Walter Milne, who for their faith suffered death



by fire at St. Andrews—who does not rejoice that this dismal den was shattered to pieces, and that where once "an atheous priest" made the good tremble by his frown, now on the pleasant sward innocent children play about, and strangers from afar idly dream an hour away?