oured upon thee
because thou wouldst not know the time of thy most gentle
visitation."[39]

[Footnote 39: Account of a Sermon at Amersham:
_Admonition to the Faithful in England_, by John
Knox.]

At Cambridge, on the same day, another notable man preached--Edwin
Sandys, then Protestant Vice-Chancellor of the University, and
afterwards Archbishop of York. Northumberland the preceding evening
brought his mutinous troops into the town. He sent for Parker, Lever,
Bill, and Sandys to sup with him, and told them he required their
prayers, or he and his friends were like to be "made deacons of."[40]
Sandys, the vice-chancellor, must address the university the next
morning from the pulpit.

[Footnote 40: Some jest, perhaps, upon a shorn
crown; at any rate, a euphemism for decapitation;
for Foxe, who tells the story, says, "and even so
it came to pass, for he and Sir John Gates, who was
then at table, were made deacons ere it was long
after on the Tower Hill."--Foxe, vol. viii. p.
590.]

Sandys rose at three o'clock in the summer twilight, took his Bible,
and prayed with closed eyes that he might open at a {p.017} fitting
text. His eyes, when he lifted them, were resting on the 16th of the
1st of Joshua: "The people answered Joshua, saying, All thou
commandest us we will do; and whithersoever thou sendest us we will
go; according as we hearkened unto Moses, so will we hearken unto
thee, only the Lord thy God be with thee as he was with Moses."

The application was obvious. Edward was Moses, the duke was Joshua;
and if a sermon could have saved the cause, Lady Jane would have been
secure upon her throne.[41]

[Footnote 41: Foxe, vol. viii. p. 590.]

But the comparison, if it held at all, held only in its least
agreeable features. The deliverers of England from the Egyptian
bondage of the Papacy had led the people out into a wilderness where
the manna had been stolen by the leaders, and there were no tokens of
a promised land. To the universities the Reformation had brought with
it desolation. To the people of England it had brought misery and
want. The once open hand was closed; the once open heart was hardened;
the ancient loyalty of man to man was exchanged for the scuffling of
selfishness; the change of faith ha