Josephine Cunnington Edwards

The prison – cell door clanged shut behind Oscar. Feeling suddenly week, he sat down on the narrow cot dominating the room. His fingers pressed against the rough blanket draped across the cot. He would be sleeping on it, he realized, sleeping on it as a military criminal.Only seven days before he had been wandering along the Danish coast, enjoying the delights of a peaceful Sabbath. Now – – now, he was a prisoner for refusing to bear arms and drill on the Sabbath. What would happen to him? A war was about to burst over Europe, and the Danish army could not afford to let insubordination, like his go unpunished, less the chatter. The morale of the Army. Military discipline was harsh.… (más)

Billy Brey was a Cornish evangelist whose name was a household word among the Bible, Christian Methodists of southwest England during the middle years of the 19th century. Aggressive, eccentric, untutored, yet possessing a singular grace and charm, he was unpredictable. In both his pulpit utterances and methods of labor. Christ and Satan were real entities to him, and his audible conversations with them took on the spirit of fellowship with one and of challenge to the other. Whenever he preached, even standing room was at a premium, and on occasion as many would be listening through the open windows of the chapel, as were seated in the sanctuary. He often irritated the established churchmen and formal religionists of his day, but in face–to–face contention with them, is radiant countenance and unashamed zeal conciliated the most obtrusive.… (más)