May you find help in time of need as near and ready.

Now when I read the story of the Three Children, I think I shall know all that they suffered, for we have been in like case." And I could make no answer, for it seemed to me that I had forgotten that I was a Christian of late.

And that was true.
Now the prior bade the sacristan hasten to Chichester and tell all this to the sheriff, and he left us, while we went on alone.
Presently I asked who made the chamber in the well, for the silence weighed on me, and my thoughts were not so lightsome.
"Doubtless by Wilfrith's men," he said, "and for the same turn it has served us.

For in his days there were many heathen round him, and flight or hiding might be the last resort at any time." Then I wondered, saying that I deemed that surely it was a greater thing to be a martyr and to die, than to save life.
"Not always so," he answered, and then he told me of the ways of holy men of old time.

"We may by no means save life by denying our faith, but we are bidden to flee into another place when persecuted.