Note 17 — Chapter XXXI
Reading edition
It was a bad day for the cause of truth when Foxe's Book of Martyrs was allowed to go out of general circulation. When I was a boy it was no uncommon thing to see copies of it in American homes. Now it is rarely seen. A new and corrected edition of it ought to be brought out and given wide circulation. There have been not a few indications this year that our people are forgetting some of the most instructive history of all the past, and those who seem to be most oblivious of it are the editors of some of the secular newspapers.