CHAPTER IV.
VICARIOUS LIVES AS INSTRUMENTS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS.
The eleventh chapter of Hebrews has been called the picture-gallery of heroes.

These patriots and martyrs who won our first battles for liberty and religion made nobleness epidemic.

Oft stoned and mobbed in the cities they founded and loved, they fled into exile, where they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and slept in the holes of the earth.

Falling at last in the wilderness, it may be said that no man knoweth their sepulcher and none their names.

But joyfully let us confess that the institutions most eminent and excellent in our day represent the very principles for which these martyrs died and, dying, conquered.