And yet that Divine reply may in no wise be delayed; even as our liberty of this hour may be the fruit of those who died when Dirk van Goorl and Hendrik Brant walked upon the earth; even as the vengeance that but now is falling on the Spaniard may be the reward of the deeds of shame that he worked upon them and upon their kin long generations gone.

For the Throne is still the Throne, and the star is still the star; from the one flows justice and from the other light, and to them time and space are naught.
Dirk finished the chapter and closed the Book.
"It seems that you have your answer, Brother," said Brant quietly.
"Yes," replied Dirk, "it is written large enough:--'The unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband.

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how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife ?' Had the Apostle foreseen my case he could not have set the matter forth more clearly." "He, or the Spirit in him, knew all cases, and wrote for every man that ever shall be born," answered Brant.