Excerpt from For Faith and Freedom: A Novel
The morning- of Sunday, August the 23d, in the year of grace 1662, should have been black and gloomy, with the artillery of rolling thunder, dreadful flashes of lightning, and driving hail and wind to strip the orchards and lay low the corn. For on that day was done a thing which filled the whole country with grief, and bore bitter fruit, in after-years, of revenge and rebellion. Because it was the day before that formerly named after Bartholomew, the disciple, it hath been called the Black Bartholomew of England, thus being likened with that famous day (approved by the pope) when the French Protestants were treacherously massacred by their king. It should rather be called "Farewell Sunday," or "Exile Sunday," because on that day two thousand godly ministers preached their last sermon in the churches where they had labored worthily and with good fruit, some during the time of the Protector, and some even longer, because among them were a few who possessed their benefices even in the time of the late King Charles the First, And, since on that day two thousand ministers left their churches and their houses, and laid down their worldly wealth for conscience' sake, there were also as many wives who went with them, and, I dare say, three or four times as many innocent and helpless babes. And, further (it is said that the time was fixed by design and deliberate malice of our enemies), the ministers were called upon to make their choice only a week or two before the day of the collection of their tithes.
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