ery thin and pinched-looking.

Note 2. Come up. An exclamation of surprise, then often used.

CHAPTER TEN.

BROUGHT OUT, TO BE BROUGHT IN.

Loud and full rang the volume of voices in the kitchen of the King's
Head at Colchester, that winter evening. They did not stand up in
silence and let a choir do it for them, while they listened to it as
they might to a German band, and with as little personal concern. When
men's hearts are warm with patriotism, or overflowing with loyalty, they
don't want somebody else to sing _Rule, Britannia_, or _God Save the
Queen_; the very enjoyment lies in doing it themselves. Nobody would
dream of paying another person to go to a party or to see a royal
procession for him. Well, then, when we prefer to keep silent, and hear
somebody sing God's praises instead of doing it ourselves, what can it
mean except that our Hearts are not warm with love and overflowing with
thankfulness, as they ought to be? And cold hearts are not the stuff
that makes martyrs.

There was plenty of martyr material in the King's Head kitchen that
night--from old Agnes Silverside to little Cissy Johnson; from the
learned priest, Mr Pulleyne, to many poor men and women who did not
know their letters. They were not afraid of what people would say, nor
even of what people might do. And yet they knew well that it was
possible, and even likely, that very terrible things might be done to
them. Their feeling was,--Well, let them be done, if that be the best
way I can glorify God. Let them be done, if it be the way in which I
can show that I love Jesus Christ. Let them be done, if by suffering
with Him I can win a place nearer to Him, and send a thrill of happiness
to the Divine and human heart of the Saviour who paid His heart's blood
to ransom me.

So the hymn was not at all too long for them, though it had fifteen
verses; and the sermon was not too long, though it lasted an hour and a
half. When people have to risk their lives to hear a sermon is not the
time when they cry out to have sermons cut shorter. They very well knew
that before another meeting took place at the King's Head, some, and
perhaps all of them, might be summoned to give up liberty and life for
the love of the Lord Jesus.

Mr Pulleyne took for his text a few words in the 23rd verse of the
sixth chapter of Deuteronomy. "He brought us out from thence, that He
might bring us in." He said to the people:--

"`He brought us out'--wh