Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by 'the powers that be,' and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose 'soul is marching on,' though his 'body lies mouldering in the grave,' or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who 'gave himself for the world,' - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, 'It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!'
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