of Judgment, and I saw George
there!' How the listener must have wondered what was coming! 'I saw
George there,' the Gaoler continued, 'and I was afraid of him, because
I had done him so much wrong, and spoken so much against him to the
ministers and professors, and to the Justices and in taverns and
alehouses.' But there the voice stopped, and the prisoner heard no
more. When evening came, however, the Gaoler visited the cell, no
longer raging and storming at his prisoner, but humbled and still. 'I
have been as a lion against you,' he said to Fox, 'but now I come like
a lamb, or like the Gaoler that came to Paul and Silas, trembling.'
He came to ask as a favour that he might spend the night in the same
prison chamber where Fox lay. Fox answered that he was in the Gaoler's
power: the keeper of the prison of course could sleep in any place he
chose. 'No,' answered the Gaoler, 'I wish to have your permission. I
should like to have you always with me, but not as my prisoner.' So
the two strange companions spent that night together lying side by
side. In the quiet hours of darkness the Gaoler told Fox all that was
in his heart. 'I have found that what you said of the true faith and
hope is really true, and I want you to know that even before I had
that terrible vision, whenever I refused to let you go and preach, I
was sorry afterwards when I had treated you roughly, and I had great
trouble of mind.'

There had been a little seed of kindness even in this rough Gaoler's
heart. Deeply buried though it was, it had been growing in the
darkness all the time, though no one guessed it--the Gaoler himself
perhaps least of all until his dream showed him the truth about
himself. When the night was over and morning light had come, the
Gaoler was determined to do all he could to help his new friend. He
went straight to the Justices and told them that he and all his
household had been plagued because of what they had done to George Fox
the prisoner.

'Well, we have been plagued too for having him put in prison,'
answered one of the Justices, whose name was Justice Bennett. And here
we must wait a minute, for it is interesting to know that it was this
same Justice Bennett who first gave the name of Quakers to George Fox
and his followers as a nickname, to make fun of them. Fox declared in
his preaching that 'all men should tremble at the word of the Lord,'
whereupon the Justice laughingly said that 'Quakers and Tremblers was
the name