ons.

Herman Modet, though he had consented to preach for a short time,
carried away by his feelings, continued to pour forth his words of fire
hour after hour, no one wearying even by the length of his discourse.
Once again there rose a hymn of praise such as had never before been
heard within those walls--not to Mary, not to any of the saints, but to
the Lamb without spot or blemish, slain for the sins of the whole world,
that all who believe on Him might not perish, but have everlasting life.
No thoughts can be more pure and simple and holy, more full of Gospel
truth than are those found in the hymns of Marot. Although we had been
standing so long, we yet left the cathedral with regret. Several of our
party could only comprehend a very small portion of what they had heard.
Margery, indeed, did not understand a word, and yet there was that
power in the speaker's manner alone which riveted her attention, while
sometimes A'Dale, and sometimes I, explained to her the substance of the
discourse.

Madam Clough, when we returned home, could scarcely believe that we had
been so long a time at the cathedral, or that we could have been as
interested as we professed with the discourse we had heard.

I must now give a short account of the numerous public events of deep
interest which occurred after this.

I have said that Master Overton proposed returning to England; but when
his presence in Antwerp was known, several Protestant Englishmen, as
well as Reformers of other nations in the place, earnestly requested him
to remain and minister to them. Sir Thomas Gresham also urging him to
do so, he consented to take the charge of a Reformed Church at Antwerp
till another should be found to supply his place. This was a great
advantage to Aveline especially, as she thus had a relative to whom she
could go for advice and instruction, which certainly her friend Madam
Clough was unable to afford.

Similar scenes to those I have described in Antwerp took place in
numerous towns throughout the Netherlands. In Flanders alone, four
hundred churches were sacked, in Mechlin, in Tournay--a city
distinguished for its ecclesiastical splendour--in Ghent, and in
Valenciennes. In not one of them, however, was a single human being
injured.

On the return of the Prince of Orange, he expressed his regret at what
had occurred. At the same time, he did not appear disposed to treat the
image-breakers with much severity. The Regent Margaret,