ery much had been cruelly put to death, and perhaps that was
the reason he suggested this savage punishment for Quaker Richard. We
do not know how that may be. But we do know that cruelty makes
cruelty, on and on without end. The only real way to stop it, is to
turn right round and follow the other law, the blessed law, whereby
love makes love.

Richard Sellar was only a rough, ignorant fisherman, but he had begun
to learn this lesson out of Christ's lesson book: and how difficult a
lesson it is, nobody knows who has not tried to carry it out.

Richard heard his sentence pronounced, that he was to be hanged. When
he heard that he was being wrongfully accused of various crimes that
he had not committed, he longed to rise and justify himself, but he
could only sit or kneel because he was too weak to stand. In vain he
tried to rise, and tried to speak. He could neither move nor say a
word. He could not even say: 'I am innocent.' He could not even pray
to God to help him in his difficulty. Again he tried to rise, and then
suddenly in his utter weakness he felt God's power holding him, and a
Voice said quite distinctly, three times over, in his heart: 'BE
STILL--BE STILL--BE STILL.'

'Which Voice,' says Richard, 'I obeyed and was comforted. Then I
believed God would arise. And when they had done speaking, then God
did arise, and I was filled with the power of God; and my spirit
lifted up above all earthly things; and wonderful strength was given
me to my limbs, and my heart was full of the power and wisdom of God;
and with glad tidings my mouth was opened, to declare to the people
the things God had made manifest to me. With sweat running down, and
tears trickling from my eyes, I told them, "The hearts of kings were
in the hand of the Lord; and so are both yours and mine; and I do not
value what you can do to this body, for I am at peace with God and all
men, and with you my adversaries. For if I might live an hundred and
thirty years longer, I can never die in a better condition: for the
Lord hath satisfied me, that He hath forgiven me all things in this
world; and I am glad through His mercy, that He hath made me willing
to suffer for His name's sake, and not only so, but I am heartily
glad, and do really rejoice, and with a seal in my heart to the same."
Then there came a man and laid his hand upon my shoulder, and said,
"Where are all thy accusers?" Then my eyes were opened, and I looked
about me, and they were all go