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20 Council of Edinburgh added to the mansion a 'warm study,' constructed of oak, which has two windows, a fireplace, and a recess for books."

"Up the narrow stairs that are visible in the picture, hundreds climb daily to see the place where lived the one 'who never feared the face of man or woman.' On the wall of the sitting-room hang autograph letters of the great people of the day from Germany, France, Switzerland and England. Around this room is a frieze, on which is the inscription, 'I am in the place where I am demanded of my conscience to speak the truth, therefore the truth I speak, impugn it who lists. Let us possess Jesus Christ, and the benefits of his evangel, and none within Scotland will be more obedient subjects than we.' From the large, second-floor window, Knox used to preach to the throngs in the street below, when no longer able to go to his beloved St. Giles and preach 'three times a day and twice on Sunday.' The study is the projection from the wall on the third floor front. By the little square window one can sit at the desk of the Reformer, and turn the leaves of the first Bible printed in Edinburgh. On the door of the study is a crude knocker — a bar and ring of iron. The furniture of the house proper has beautiful carvings, much of it more elaborate in design than that used by Queen Mary in Holyrood Palace."

We are indebted to the North Carolina Presbyterian Standard for the cut (and description following it) of the home of John Knox.

Knox is said to have been the most illustrious Scotsman of his age — a reformer who, in intellectual force, may be ranked with Luther, Calvin and Zwingle. The life and labors of this great Reformer are familiar to all readers of history.

Page 95. "Christopher Goodman is mentioned as Knox's colleague at Geneva. They ministered in the Temple de Nostre Darne la Neiuve, granted them, on Calvin's intercession, by the Lesser Council of the city."