One day, out in the meadow The men walked up and down. That looked like lances 'mid the trees, That stood below the stream. At eve they all assembled, All care and doubt were fled; With jovial laugh they feasted, The board was nobly spread. The elder of the village Rose up, his glass in hand, "The night is growing darker, The women shrank in terror (Yet Pride, too, had her part), But one poor Tyrol maiden Felt death within her heart. Before her, stood fair Bregenz, The days of childhood flown, Reclaimed her as their own! Nothing she heard around her (Though shouts rang forth again), Gone were the green Swiss valleys, The pasture and the plain; Before her eyes one vision, And in her heart one cry, That said, "Go forth, save Bregenz, And then, if need be, die!" With trembling haste and breathless, With noiseless step she sped; Horses and weary cattle Were standing in the shed; She loosed the strong white charger That fed from out her hand, She mounted, and she turned his head Towards her native land. "Faster!" she cries, "O faster!" Grows nearer in the midnight Her steed must breast the waters And if to deeds heroic Should endless fame be paid, Bregenz does well to honor The noble Tyrol maid. Three hundred years are vanished, To do her honor still. And there, when Bregenz women And when, to guard old Bregenz - ADELAIDE A. PROCTER. PARABLES ON PERSECUTION 1. AND it came to pass, after these things, that Abraham sat in the door of his tent about the going down of the sun. 2. And behold a man, bowed with age, came from the way of the wilderness, leaning on a staff. 3. And Abraham rose and met him, and said, “Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early in the morning and go on thy way." 4. But the man said, "Nay, for I will abide under this tree." 5. And Abraham pressed him greatly; so he turned, and they went into the tent, and Abraham baked unleavened bread, and they did eat. 6. And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, "Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, creator of heaven and earth?” 7. And the man answered and said, "I do not worship the God thou speakest of, neither do I call upon his name; for I have made to myself a god, which abideth always in my house, and provideth me with all things." 8. And Abraham's zeal was kindled against the |