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Title: For the Master's Sake
A Story of the Days of Queen Mary

Author: Emily Sarah Holt

Illustrator: H. Petherick

Release Date: January 1, 2008 [EBook #24105]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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For the Master's Sake, by Emily Sarah Holt.

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The story is set in the middle of the sixteenth century, in London, at a
time when a Catholic Queen had succeeded to the throne, shortly to marry
King Philip of Spain. The Protestant Bishops were replaced with
Catholic ones, in particular Bonner, Bishop of London, and these set
about murderously dealing with the least signs of Protestantism.

All this is very confusing to the average person, and that is what the
story is about. Just fairly ordinary citizens of London, trying to work
out what they are supposed to think and do.

The author was a strong Protestant, and this makes her arguments all the
stronger.

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FOR THE MASTER'S SAKE, BY EMILY SARAH HOLT.

PREFACE.

This is not a story which requires much preface. The tale speaks for
itself. But it is only right to inform the reader, that the persons who
play their parts in it (apart from the historical details given) are all
fictitious, excepting John Laurence and Agnes Stone.

It rests, under God, with the men and women of England--and chiefly with
those of them who are young now--whether such events as are here
depicted shall recur in this nineteenth century. The battle of the
Reformation will soon have to be fought over again; and reformations (no
less than revolutions) are "not made with rose-water."

"Choose you this day whom ye will serve! If the Lord be God, follow
Him; but if Baal, then follow him."

Are we ready to follow the Master,--if He lead to Calvary? Or are we
ready to run the awful risk of hearing Christ's "Depart!" rather than
face men's "Crucify"? Now, while it is called