But has the peril become so great that men are forced to use such methods as those which London is shortly to witness ?" There was a glow in Clarke's eyes which the gathering gloom could not hide.

Magdalen seemed about to speak, but Dalaber was before her.
"They say that the Tyndale translations are full of glaring errors, and errors which feed the heresies of the Lollards, and are directed against the Holy Church." "That charge is not wholly without foundation," answered Clarke at once, who as a scholar of the Greek language was well qualified to give an opinion on that point.

"And deeply do I grieve that such things should be, for the errors cannot all have been through accident or ignorance, but must have been inserted with a purpose; and I hold that no man is guiltless who dares to tamper with the Word of God, even though he think he may be doing God service thereby.

The Holy Spirit who inspired the sacred writers may be trusted so to direct men's hearts and spirits that they may read aright what He has written; and it is folly and presumption to think that man may improve upon the Word of God." "But there are errors in all versions of the Scriptures, are there not--in all translations from the original tongue ?" Magdalen was now the speaker, and she looked earnestly at Clarke, as though his words were words of the deepest wisdom, from which there was no appeal.
"Errors in all--yes; but our Latin version is marvellously true to the original, and when Wycliffe translated into English he was far more correct than Tyndale has been.

But it is the Tyndale Testaments which have had so wide a sale of late in this country, and which have set London in commotion--these and the writings of Martin Luther, which the men from the Stillyard have brought up the river in great quantities.