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slept quietly for about two hours and a half. I then awoke, and continued awake till midnight, all sorts of thoughts passing through my mind. Among other things, I thought how I was to observe the feast of all saints. I prayed for the poor souls in purgatory; and supplicated God to guide my counsels, and my people, according to the truth.

"I again fell asleep, and then dreamed that Almighty God sent me a Monk, who was a true Son of the Apostle Paul. All the saints accompanied him by order of God, in order to bear testimony before me, and to declare that he did not come to contrive any plot, but that all that he did was according to the will of God. They asked me to have the goodness to graciously permit him to write something on the door of the church of the castle of Wittemberg. This I granted through my chancellor.

"Thereupon, the Monk went to the church, and began to write in such large characters that I could read the writing at Schweinitz. The pen which he used was so large, that its end reached as far as Rome, where it pierced the ears of the lion that was crouching there; and caused the triple crown upon the head of the pope to shake.* All the cardinals and princes, running hastily up, tried to prevent it from falling. You and I, brother, wished also to assist; and I stretched out my arm, but at this moment I awoke, with my arm in the air, quite amazed, and very much enraged at the Monk for not managing his pen better, I recollected myself a little. It was only a dream.

"I was still half asleep, and once more closed my eyes. The dream returned. The lion, still annoyed by the pen,

* Leo X. was then Pope.

began to roar with all his might; so much so that the whole city of Rome and all the states of the holy empire ran to see what the matter was. The pope requested them to oppose the monk, and applied particularly to me on account of his being in my country. I again awoke and repeated the Lord's prayer, entreated God to preserve his holiness, and once more fell asleep.

"Then I dreamed that all the princes of the empire, and we among them, hastened to Rome and strove one after another to break the pen. But the more we tried the stiffer it became, sounding as if it had been made of iron. We at length desisted. I then asked the Monk (for I was sometimes at Rome and sometimes at Wittemberg) where he got the pen, and why it was so strong? "The pen,' he replied, 'belonged to an old goose of Bohemia—a hundred years old. I got it from one of my school masters. As to its strength, it is owing to the impossibility of depriving it of its pith and marrow; and I am quite astonished at it myself.'

"Suddenly I heard a loud noise-a large number of other pens had sprung out of the long pen of the Monk. "I awoke the third time; it was daylight." Duke John-"Chancellor, what is your opinion? Would we had a Joseph or a Daniel enlightened by God."

The Chancellor "Your highness knows the common proverb, that the dreams of young girls, learned men and great lords have usually some hidden meaning. The meaning of this dream, however, we will not be able to know for some time, not till the things to which it relates have taken place. Wherefore, leave the accomplishment to God, and place it wholly in His hand."

Duke John-"I am of your opinion, Chancellor, 'tis no fit for us to annoy ourselves in attempting to discover the meaning. "God will overrule all for His glory."

The Elector-"May our faithful God do so. Yet, I shall never forget this dream. I have indeed thought of an interpretation; but I keep it to myself. Time, perhaps, will show if I have been a good diviner."

At noon of that very day, the interpretation began, the meaning to be made plain. For at that hour, without having made known to anybody his intentions, the Monk, Martin Luther, nailed to the door of Wittemberg church his ninetyfive theses against Rome.

"The Reformation had arisen, never more to be put down. Luther in Germany, Zwingle in Switzerland, and soon others with these and everywhere, to the joy of a great multitude, were engaged in restoring the image of Christ in the lives of

men.

"And among the laughing and rejoicing peoples, there were two hundred congregations of reformation Christians in Bohemia, who were descended through the long night and had watched eagerly for the promised day.

"What it meant to all, was summed up in words and sounded forth in the voice of one in curious garb, holding aloft a large cross, and chanting in a tone that seemed fitted to cause the dead to hear, as Luther entered the city of Worms:

"Thou art come, O desired one: thou for whom we have longed and waited."

"Through a hundred years the Roman church has demonstrated that for the reformation, for the church and Chris

tianity which the Reformation revealed, she holds only perpetual enmity. In this additional field, the field of the strictly spiritual, the Roman church had further proved to all the world the truth that the reformers preached, that she is not the true church in any feature nor in any sense."

It was the Reformation that blazed the way for the appearance of "Columbia, Queen o' the Nations."

CHAPTER VII.

THE SEQUEL

THEN CAME THE REVOLUTION

COLUMBIA

"In the year 1743, in a Boston town meeting, behold Samuel Adams tribune of New England against Old England, of America against Europe, of Liberty against Despotism.

"Thirty-three years before the declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams declared, in a latin discourse, the first flashes of the fire that blazed in Fanuel Hall and kindled America, that it is lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved. He struck the keynote of American Independence which still stirs the heart of man with its music.

"The fire kindled was from a coal brought to earth by an angel's hand with the tongs from the altar in heaven

"The people of the new land with high hopes had left the old world in order to escape the tyranny of priests and kings. They said, 'Of priests and kings we have seen enough; we will govern ourselves.' Old England said, 'You must come under our system and we will rule over you.'

"Then the embattled farmers at Lexington and Concord opened fire at the tyrant and the battle of the ages was on. "From the bed of her revolutionary birth, a republic arose, founded upon the principles announced by Jesus Christ. It

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