The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-05

Tin repeats them III EHSI ISL
IL La Iaan turns her face from the
> which was carried about on
Goss Warning Worn Several at church,
caster III, ~ at the moment OF the
sSpeCttf%on would not say their
ele sTars and remained seated as
pray beasts. Three men Passeo, d
dulhtp tnogether reading a book OF the
nlgIy+ ,TTes. a pregnant woman went
ocrlP poss not fasting. A brazler de-
I? 5i' fbe real presence. A brick
nle 1or kept the Apocalypse IN has
maA Aeasion A thresher said, as he
posted to his work, that he was
P 2Oin@ to make God come out OF his II
COLLIE Others spoke highly OF pill
SIia oooes or of the Pope,Or OF relics,
grimes eopfession. And then fifty OF
OF VI we're condemned the same
tnei r IN allure, to promise to de-
yea noe each other and to do penance
H NJ their lives, on pain Of being
SSn i as relapsed heretics. They
Uu1p' shut up in different monster
i mS.0 there they were to be main
!O;1,od nv aims and to work for their
G I~In0 thev were to appear with
SuppGr IN their shoulders at market
a and ON Sunday; then in a general
H nIl then at the burning OF
: beretic; they were to fast on
bread and ale every Friday during
their life. and every eve of Corpus
christi on bread and water. and
cn-,Iy visible mark on their cheek
CIV were burned alive, and
tbe children of one were
forced to kindle their fathers
nyre. People saw their companions,
BSTofhers. relatives, bound with iron
chains with clasped hands praying
amid the smoke, while the flames
biackened their skins and destroyed
their flesh. Such sights are not for
gotten, The last words uttered
around the fagots, the last appeals
to God and Christ, remain IN Their
hearts. all powerful and inetfaceabIe:
It ia easv to see what would come of
snch seed, sown in such manner in
snch soil. But to return to the Eng
Iish Bible. 1t was amid such state
of things that the second great
translation was born and clrcu-
ated."
WILLIAM TYNDALE.
William TYndale was born in 1884,
sent early to Oxford and thoroughly
educated. He became member OF
the regular church and soon came to
be known as q refOrmer, cOntinlng
his first efforts to the abuses which
had grown up in the church itself.
He became a diligent student Of the
Greek scriptures, and was not long
in reaching Wyciiffe's conclusion,
that the book ought to be given to
the people. About this time the
fame of Martin Luther reached Eng
land, and the fact that he had given
the Bible to the people in their own
tongue was looked upon by the pre-
lSteS and the crowned heads with
horror, and by Tyndale and the COM
mon people with joyful hope. Tyn-
dale resolved to do for England
what Luther had done for Saxony
and all Germany. He would put
tbe Bible into their hands in words
fhey could understand. He was de-
spiSed and denounced, but would not
sWerye, In the course of a heated
controversy with a church dignitary
he exclaimed, IF God spare my
life, ere many years will cause the
boy that driveth the plOw to know
more of the Scriptures than you DO"
Persecution followed. Doubtless
some of Luthers Bibles had found
their way over the channel. At any
rate, after much fruitleSS effort,
TyndaIe concluded that he was not
safe in his native land, and so went
away to the continent. He conferred
with Luther, who helped him with
advice and money. At Worms he
completed his admirable traRSla-
ton; and in December, 1926, the first
printed English Bibles made
their appearance in London.
It was at once denounced and
prohibited; the translation was
said to be false, and the translator
was held up as little less than the
arch enemy himself. WolSey was in
a state of excitement amounting to
madness. Henry himself, who had
not begun his fight with the Pope,
joined with the clerical authority in
hunting down the prescribed book.
Arrests were made, the Bibles and
all of Tyndale's writings were
seized and burned, and finally the
great chancellor, Sir Thomas More,
forgetting the beautiful picture of
spiritual and intellectual freedom
he had drawn in his utopia" joined
IN the hunt and became one of the
most Jealous and violent. Several
Of Tyndale's friends were perse-
cuted, some even to nartyrdOm.
Every effort was made to get the
ander whom he had
taken refuge to give him up, but
without avail. The chancellor
wrote against Tyndale and the latter
replied. More was violent and
shockingly gross and pro-
fame; Tyndale was calm and arg
We have not space to
speak in detail of the prosecutions
that continued for some twenty
years. The Bible was wider and
wider spread; the printing press
had made suppression simply i'm,
possible. Tyndale's friend and as
SiStant, Firth, young man of great
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