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The same unswerving adherence to the word

of God manifested at that crisis of the

Reformation is the only hope of reform today.

There appeared tokens of danger to the

Protestants; there were tokens, also, that the

divine hand was stretched out to protect the

faithful. It was about this time that

“Melanchthon hastily conducted through the

streets of Spires toward the Rhine his friend

Simon Grynaeus, pressing him to cross the

river. The latter was astonished at such

precipitation. ‘An old man of grave and

solemn air, but who is unknown to me,’ said

Melanchthon, ‘appeared before me and said,

In a minute officers of justice will be sent by

Ferdinand to arrest Grynaeus.’”

During the day, Grynaeus had been

scandalized at a sermon by Faber, a leading

papal doctor; and at the close, remonstrated