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You wouldn't have me tell you to stay at my hotel and to compromise myself before all these people?" "These people! Those boarding-houses are driving me mad! That Miss Forman!" "I thought you liked her. You said she is good, 'a simple, kind person, without pretensions. And that is enough, according to yesterday's creed. Do you recant all this?"
"Tory, monarchist!" cried Max, "recant at once, or you sha'n't taste a mouthful of my breakfast." "Do you think I'll sell my loyalty for a mess of pottage! No, I'm for a well-regulated monarchy: hurrah for Victoria!"
Fierce words were spoken to the priests in loud tones. Though we could not hear the words, we knew this by the gestures and by the occasional sounds which reached our ears. At length, one by one, the martyrs were led down again from the platform towards the stakes to which they were to be secured for burning. Again they were asked if they would recant.
Why, what you preach ain't the gospel, an' it ain't the truth, and the time has come for you to know it, an' own it and recant. Recant! That's what they call it. That's what we're here to see 't you do, or we'll know the reason why. That's the dynamics of it. See?" The minister saw. He saw the deep, muddy water-hole. He saw nothing more.
Will they hang me? Will they choke me? Will they stone me? Will they drag me over these awful rocks until life is dashed out? What meant the gleam in Bonds' eyes last night in the service? What will become of my dear wife and boy in Ohio? Will I recant? Will I deny my Lord? Will I shun to declare the whole counsel of God?"
In the modern world, the Inquisition of the United States of Europe and America is no less crushing than was the Holy Inquisition of old. But Nicolai, firmer of spirit than Galileo, has refused to recant. Thus again does force manifest its ludicrous weakness, for its unjust decrees merely help to raise a statue to the man whom force would fain strike down.
There was no actual prohibition against teaching Burmese subjects, but there was no security that the converts would not be persecuted; and the collector told them that fifteen years previously a Burmese teacher who had been converted by the Portuguese, and had even visited Rome, was denounced on his return by his nephew and commanded to recant.
As I sat beside Father McGlyn in the pulpit, I said, "Father, how do you stand with the Pope, these days? What is the status of the case?" "Well, Irvine," he said, "I can best explain it by a dream that I had some time ago. I dreamed that a young priest visited me with the intention of getting me to recant.
Antichrist will not, nor cannot, get into power without a general union, which is not effected by a divine harmony of godly doctrines, but by common temporal interests and the power of a majority. But should we be deceived in our opinion, and clearly be convinced of it, we shall not be ashamed to recant.
Beside, the undertaking may be very hazardous; for they are a sort of men generally very hot and passionate; and should I provoke them, I doubt not would set upon me with a full cry, and force me with shame to recant, which if I stubbornly refuse to do, they will presently brand me for a heretic, and thunder out an excommunication, which is their spiritual weapon to wound such as lift up a hand against them.
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