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18 "Husband, be glad, we have lived together many joyful days, and this day we ought to esteem the most joyful of all, because now we shall have happiness for ever. Therefore I will not bid you good night, for we shall shortly meet in the kingdom of heaven.”

After the execution of the husband the woman was taken to a pool of water not far distant, when having commended her children to the charity of her neighbours; and giving a little babe who was at her breast to a nurse, she died with a fortitude and resignation worthy of the cause for which she suffered.

The next who suffered in the cause of the Reformed doctrines was Adam Wallace, who was burned upon the Castle Hill of Edinburgh. Among several other things he was accused of denying purgatory,-maintaining that prayers made to the saints and for the dead were superstitious. -calling the mass an idolatrous service, and affirming that the bread and wine in the sacrament after the words of consecration remained bread and wine. He was also accused of usurping the office of a preacher, having no lawful calling thereto His answer to this charge, like that of several others in similar circumstances, was extremely affecting "I never thought myself," he said "worthy of so excellent a vocation as the calling of a preacher, nor did I ever presume to preach In some private places, it is true," he continued "I have read a part of the Scriptures at times and made a short exlıortation thereon; to thos that would hear me." It was replied, that h ought not to have meddled with the scriptare “I esteemed it," he answered, “the duty of ever Christian to scek the knowledge of God's word and the assurance of his own'salvation, which we