Weekly Trinity journal., 1878-01-12
NUMBER 9.

and conferred upon him the rank Of
Knight. ~ am thy sponsor my son,
that thou shalt this day earn this honor"
said Sobiesk.
The Austrian and Polish armies had
united and were under the Polish King.
They numbered less than seventy thous-
and men their adversaries over four
hundred thousand. The disparity, il con-
sidered did not dismay tho Polish hero.
God is with us. who shall be against
us, he said /; and gave the signal for nd
vance. Against the Christian army
Mustapha poured his hosts like torrent.
Wave upon wave Of fierce fury swept the
warriors of Islam. Upon every hand
they met wall of steel and a sheet Of
flame.
The tanaticism Of the Mussulmen wa7
met by Il faith as fearless and as unque,-
toning, and with its path marked by
broad sparth of corpses tho Christian, mr.
my pressed on. Upon the walls Of Ven-
ma thronged the iamished survivors ofthe
dreadful siege, watching in breathess sus-
peuse the conflict that was to bring to
them their deliverance or de.truction -
Above the thunder of battle the war ciics
of the struggling hosts tollod the
solemn ball like the wall of n peo-
pie. All day the contest ragged. All
day the Christian army pressed forward,
and as night approached tho Turkish ar
my faltored. Hesitation soon turned to
retreat, 60 flight, to hopeless route. All
night fed the fugitive host Far into the
night, with lance and sword, cumo the
pitilcss pursuor. Tho overthrow was
complete, and the last wave of MoSlem
invasion recedcd to the shores Of the Bus.
phorus.
Upon the following day Sobieshi ut tho
head of his army made his entry into vi
emma. Through tho wrecks of houses
shattered with shot and she'll, amid tho
survivors of a population dccimated by
famine and the siege, rode the Polish de-
liverer. Upon every hand kreA men in
vo>ing blessings upon his namo. Moth
ers held up their infants that they might
look upon their prescrver. From every
spiro the bolls rang pcals ofjubilec. AT
every altar thronged grateful worshipers,
and the horrors of tho sogc, though but
of yesterday, were half forgotten in joy
over their deliverance. Through such
scenes Sobio,li at the head of his army
| proceeded to tho church of st. Stephens,
and in grateful homage laia his sword
wet with blood, upon the high altar;
while upon the walls as votivo offerings
were suspended tho captured Moslem
standards. Such was the great deliver
anco that the yalor and devotion of Po-
! lnnd wrought not for Austria alone but
for all:Chrstendom.
rescued city sat the envoys Of Austria,
Russin and Prussia, agreeing upon tho
iniquitous portion of Poland.
LittIo wonder perhaps that CathaHno
of Russia was shameless; thnt Frederick
was rnpacious but that Auslria should
/ thus aid in the spoilation of her benolnct-
or surpassos the inamy Of either of her
confedcrates " this crime. Upon tho
walls Of ST. Stephen mouldercd the captur.
ed standards upon the high altar rdsted
the sword Of Sobicski.
From the lofty tower still sounded tlc
! bell that had summoned the deliycrer
and welcomed tho couqucror. Upon
every hand we're the memontoes Of those
days of dread, OF that day Of fdaliyerance,
and the sword Of Austria should hnve
lcaped from its scabbard in tho defonsc OF
Poland.
Aas for the honor Of Austria. Moro
than all others she has fostcrcd the scheme
aided in the Outrage and shared the plum
der that obitcrated from tho nations tho
land Of Sobieski. - s. IN JOSc He,cuiV.