True Nobles and Heroes. 31

A dear little boy, not long ago, when he
was dying, was asked if he were happy.
He said, “Oh! yes. I see Jesus; He has a
great many little boys with Him, and they
are all singing victory through the blood,
papa!” and so he passed away to wear the
victor’s crown, and to sing through the
countless ages of eternity, Victory through
the blood! Yes, through the precious blood
of Jesus.

Just by way of contrast, let me take two
other cases. ‘The first one shall be a world’s
hero; the next, a faithful follower of God, a
true hero and a noble man. You know how
Cardinal Wolsey, by scheming and plotting,
had attained to the position of the highest
ecclesiastic in this country, and after serving
-the king, often against the dictates of his
own conscience, in his last hour exclaimed—

“ Had I but served my God with half the zeal

I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.”
See how little trust there is to be put in
Princes! And now let us look at a noble
specimen of the other sort,—old Palissy, the
renowned Huguenot (French Protestant)