to True Nobles and Heroes.

their lives for the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ!” Then would instances of  self-
denying love to the Master, and of true
heroism, such as those of Williams, the
martyr of Erromanga, of David Livingstone
in Africa, be multiplied over and over
again, and the aspirations and resolutions of
many a youth be realised in a noble life of
service for the Lord Jesus. Scotland justly
boasts of her Covenanters, who, undeterred
by fear of bloodshed or the sword of persecu-
tion, met, at the risk of life and liberty, to
worship God according to their own con-
science, raised the standard, and waved it in
the face of those who would oppose liberty of
religious worship, by not only “ hazarding,”
but yielding up their lives for the sake of
Christ and truth. They said—
“We are this day in arms

For a broken covenant and a
Persecuted kirk.”

And nobly they lived and died. As one of
the Scottish poets has beautifully sung :—

“Tn a dream of the night I was wafted away
To the moorlands of mist, where the bless’d martyrs
lay—