ist
to the Lawyer; see Gospel, St. Luke, x. 25, _et. seq._ The emphasized
"_then_" on the second line refers to when "for its keeping you shall
account;" (see previous stanza, page 28) the sense of the two first
lines being: too late _then_ to mend evil deeds by charity.

PAGE 39, lines 3 and 4; see Swedish and General History; Three champions
of political and religious liberty; prominent in removing excessive
taxation, extending the rights, guarantees and educational facilities of
the people and undermining and finally crushing the pernicious and
immense power, wealth and influence of a corrupt and arbitrary
hierarchy.--

ENGELBREKT, an influential private citizen, went, on his own
responsibility, to demand of the then king (Erik XIII) amelioration in
the condition of the utterly enslaved, tax-ridden and tyranized people.
This being refused, he induced the people, under his leadership, to rise
in arms (in the fall of 1433) and, during three years of successive
victories, drove out of the country all foreign oppressors and their
adherents, put other men in their places, and enforced changes in the
government, and a reduction everywhere of 33 per cent. in the taxes. He
was murdered April 27th, 1436.

GUSTAVUS 1st, savior of the independence of Sweden, who gave it new
Constitution, new Laws, new Church-government, and was the first to
institute general education, by establishing public schools throughout
the country. He was born in 1496, and reigned from 1521 to his death,
1560.

GUSTAVUS II, ADOLPHUS, born in 1592, Grandson of Gustavus 1st, was king
of Sweden from 1611 to his death 1632, when he fell in the famous battle
at Luetzen, Germany, in the "thirty years war," while fighting for the
grand cause of liberty of conscience.

PAGE 41, "Uriah-note," see Bible, II Samuel, chapter XI.

PAGE 42, 1st line; see Bible, Genesis, chapter XXXVII.

PAGE 42, 2nd line; see Bible, II Samuel, chapter I.

PAGE 42, 5th line; see Bible, Jeremiah XXXI, verse 15; also, Gospel of
St. Matthew, chapter II, verse 18.

PAGE 45, 1st line; see Bible, Gospel of St. Luke, XX, 39.

PAGE 45, 3rd line; see Bible, St. John, XIX, 25.

PAGE 45, 5th line; see Bible, St. John, XIV, 13.

PAGE 50, 3rd line, see Bible, St. Mark, XIII, 13.

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