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July 28, 1909. lief that the doctrine of the Tr Church, was erroneous. Me Christ and ignored the existci In 1530 he published a book 1 stated in an offensive way. T1 by all the Reformers, and Butz thor should be put to death, prison, but recanted. For sev< lived either in Paris or Vienna, his heresy, and possessed of should turn the tide of the Ref< nel of his erroneous beliefs. F lished another book in which hi sies. He was thrown into prist Kormti n iromcf !*? ?* Ii ft ao wv^iiii a^aiuoi nun. ?< misc what would have been th< he not escaped. Under an as his way to Geneva. His prese * ported to Calvin, and Calvin and prosecuted him for blasphe Calvin, it must be remembei head of Geneva. He occupied.! city that a pastor occupies to prosecuting attorney occupies t eration of the city was due to 1 tion was ever alive. There w city: the Libertines, who stood ality, and who championed Ser Calvin, who stood for law and time, was the acknowledged 1 tion; and Geneva was its cent and logical that Calvin should j was responsible for the spiritua there confronted him one wh and blasphemer, who had beei than twenty years. In a very i " of the Reformation was in the wink at the blasphemy of Serv< sion of weakness that might re cause. The triumph of Servet by the enemies ?of the Reforn merely of Calvin, but of all tl which was the Reformed faitl him with less vigor, he would own people, even as a pastoi would permit an arch heretic even as a solicitor general, wli connive at the escape of a crirr ted a grave breach against the less could Calvin have done? Calvin triumphed in the pros< magistrates found Servetus gui should be burned. After the se Calvin plead with the magistn the sentence to execution, inst magistrates, however, who we r ol\*m o 4 fliie 4-1 ^ mui 'wtti * in at lino unit, ItlU^C morning of the dav Servetus \ ited him in his prison, assured h toward him, and besought him fused. It was the unanimous verdici that Servetus should die. It w; ment of all the leaders of the vetus deserved to die. Even ; spirit of the times, affirmed the I , _ 1 THE PRESBYTERIj inity as received by the denied the divinity of ice of the Holy Spirit, containing these errors le book was denounced er declared that the auServetus was cast into sral years afterward he , holding tenaciously to the conviction that he urination into the chan inally, in 1553, he pube re-stated his old herein in Vienna, and proct is not difficult to sur; result of his trial, had sumed name, he made :nce in Geneva was rehad him apprehended my. ed, was the spiritual the same relation to the bis church, or that a* 0 the state. The regennim. However, opposiere two parties in the for license and immorvetus; and the party of order. Calvin, at this eader of the Reformaer. It was but natural >rosecute Servetus. He 1 welfare o.f the people ; o was an arch heretic a a firebrand for more eal sense, also, the fate balance. For Calvin to etus would be a confesact disastrously on the us would be construed tation as a defeat, not !iat Calvin represented, i. Had he prosecuted have been false to his r would be false who among his people, or 10 would, in a manner, linal, who had commitlaw of the land. What ecution of the case. The lty and decreed that he ntence had been f>assed, ites for a mitigation of ead of the stake. The re not on crorwl t#?rmc - vv' 11,0 :d his petition! On the vas burned, Calvin vistim he had no ill feeling to recant. Servetus ret of the Swiss churches as the unanimous judgReformation that SerMelancthon, the gentle justice of the sentence. \N OF THE SOUTH. Considering the facts fairly ar for its to arrive at a different cc "NO MORE By J. L. "Does that mean there wi heaven?" asked my child as 1 chapter of Revelation the othei ers. We were sitting in our a us the blue ocean, the tips of pink as they caught the light more sea." To me, too, this \ I have ever had that love for to one born by its shore. I lo by its swell, or sung to sleep 1 its surge. My children are lil wonder at the little one's exc For the lonely author of the a far different meaning. We ca some of the old masters, seat< cliff of Patmos, looking out ; gean, and feeling that with al sea that is dividing him from there, scarce half a hundred m sus, and I *70* u;r others of the sea is a 1 etween"; p them again. To him the sea \ tion, and as he pictured the 1 saints, one of the most comio there would be no separation, loved ones on earth, no sepai wrote "the sea"?the separati even the sea could not work f tion. If he could not reach send them a message of com imust 01 persecution; their would "the Beast" and his fol the face of the earth the disci would send them a message oi it must be veiled, but they 1 Revelation of the ultimate tr Lamb that was slain. So th< Church now and to all time, taken courage from these wor rating sea. Cushing, Mass. THE GREAT F No one lives who does not from something that is in his 1 or spiritual or both, is a drag < est man or woman alive. 1 need not be a matter of hope than a hope?it is a fact. It those who have laid hold on the place where we shall find our dear ones' heavenly birth even to us who are for. a littl separated from them. Think ing to mean to those who hav pain or blindness or crippled o it is going to mean to all of t in the torturing struggle again: ^m that day to remember the surrender.?Sunday School Ti 9 id candidly, it is difficult inclusion. SEA." H. ' ill be no more ocean in ive read the twenty-first r evening at family prayottage by the sea. before the breakers edged with of the setting sun. "Xo vas always puzzling, for i,: : UIC WI11V.II 1^ 1 llllclLC ved to be rocked to rest by the tireless lullaby of <e myself, and 1 did not lamation. Apocalypse the sea had in see him, as figured by ?d in his loneliness on a icross the beautiful Ae1 its loveliness, it is the all his dear ones. Over iles to the east, is Enhe the seven churches, but erhaps he will never see vas the figure of separatuture triumph of God's rting thoughts was that No separation from ration by death, and he on?"is no more." But or him complete separahis friends he could fort. They were in the faith was sorely tried; lowers finally" blot from pies of the Christ? He [ hope?for safety's sake would understand it,?a iumph and glory of the i early Church, and the has been heartened and ds sent across the sepaiELEASE. long to be forever freed ife. Weakness, physical on the joy of the strong'hat longed-for freedom to any one: it is better is definitely promised to eternal life. Heaven is . it. That is what makes days a time of such joy te while left behind and what this release is goe been living in physical r dumb! Think of what js who have been living st sin! We shall be glad times when we did not mes.