"Yours is a very braw
commission, but you will have the small opportunity of carrying
it through here. Take my advising, and write a bit of a letter to
your friends, and I will send it, for this is no place for such a great
man. If you cannot steady your hand to write, as I see you have
been at your great work, a word of a mouth may do; for I do
assure you this is not the place at all, of any in the world, for your
operations."
The man apparently thought I was deranged in my intellect. He
could not swallow such great truths at the first morsel. So I took
his advice, and sent a line to my reverend father, who was not
long in coming, and great was the jailer's wonderment when he
saw all the great Christian noblemen of the land sign my bond of
freedom.
My reverend father took this matter greatly to heart, and bestirred
himself in the good cause till the transgressors were ashamed to
shew their faces. My illustrious companion was not idle: I
wondered that he came not to me in prison, nor at my release; but
he was better employed, in stirring up the just to the execution of
God's decrees; and he succeeded so well that my brother and all
his associates had nearly fallen victims to their wrath.
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