ildren's children shall revile the ashes of the fathers! Woe, woe,
woe, at the judgment, when all the persecuted and all the slain in this
bloody land, and the father, the mother, and the child shall await them
in a day that they cannot escape! Seed of the faith, seed of the faith,
ye whose hearts are moving with a power that ye know not, arise, wash
your hands of this innocent blood! Lift your voices, chosen ones, cry
aloud, and call down a woe and a judgment with me!"

Having thus given vent to the flood of malignity which she mistook for
inspiration, the speaker was silent. Her voice was succeeded by the
hysteric shrieks of several women, but the feelings of the audience
generally had not been drawn onward in the current with her own. They
remained stupefied, stranded as it were, in the midst of a torrent,
which deafened them by its roaring, but might not move them by its
violence. The clergyman, who could not hitherto have ejected the usurper
of his pulpit otherwise than by bodily force, now addressed her in the
tone of just indignation and legitimate authority.

"Get you down, woman, from the holy place which you profane," he said.
"Is it to the Lord's house that you came to pour forth the foulness of
your heart, and the inspiration of the Devil? Get you down, and remember
that the sentence of death is on you, yea, and shall be executed, were
it but for this day's work!"

"I go, friend, I go, for the voice hath had its utterance," replied
she, in a depressed and even mild tone. "I have done my mission unto
thee and to thy people. Reward me with stripes, imprisonment, or death,
as ye shall be permitted."

The weakness of exhausted passion caused her steps to totter as she
descended the pulpit stairs. The people, in the meanwhile, were stirring
to and fro on the floor of the house, whispering among themselves, and
glancing toward the intruder. Many of them now recognized her as the
woman who had assaulted the governor with frightful language, as he
passed by the window of her prison; they knew, also, that she was
adjudged to suffer death, and had been preserved only by an involuntary
banishment into the wilderness. The new outrage, by which she had
provoked her fate, seemed to render further lenity impossible; and a
gentleman in military dress, with a stout man of inferior rank, drew
toward the door of the meeting-house, and awaited her approach. Scarcely
did her feet press the floor, however, when an unexpected s