God of my Fathers

*' Marion Harvie, a young woman, not twenty years of age, on her way to the place of execution, was interrupted hi her devotions : on which she turned to her fellow-prisoner, Isabel Alison, and said, ' Come, Isabel, let us sing the 23d Psalm j' which accordingly they did, Marion repeating the psalm line by line without book. Being come to the scaffold, after singing the 84th Psalm, and reading the 3d of Malachi, she said, ' I am come here to-day for avowing Christ to be the head of his church, and King in Zion. They say I would murder; but I declare, I am free of all matters of fact ; I could never take the life of a chicken but my heart shrinked. But it is only for my judgment of things that I am brought here. I leave my blood on the council and the Duke of York.' At this the soldiers interrupted, and would not allow her to speak any."— Cloud of Witnesses.