Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

those who remained behind would make answer
and say, "May God, to whom you go, prosper your
journey, and grant you a happy passage from this
vale of misery into the heavenly country. May the
Lord Jesus send his angels to meet thee. Go,
brother, before us to our Father's house; we follow
thee. Presently we shall reassemble in that
heavenly glory of which we are confident through
him in whom we have believed."[14]
The beaming faces and meek yet courageous
utterances of these men on the scaffold, exhibited
to the spectators a more certain token of the
goodness of their cause than the bow which had
attracted their wondering gaze in the morning.
Many of the senators, as well as the soldiers who
guarded the execution, were moved to tears; nor
could the crowd have withheld the same tribute,
had not the incessant beating of drums, and the
loud blaring of trumpets, drowned the words
spoken on the scaffold.
But these words were noted down by their
pastors, who accompanied them to the block, and
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