of body, others with worldly wealth, others with still different gifts, all of which are to be used by their possessors to His honor and glory, if they wish not to incur the curse of the unworthy steward, who buried his talent in the earth. . . . .  Now ye may easily see,” he continued, “that the Prince cannot carry out this great work alone, having lost land, people, and goods, and having already employed in the cause all which had remained to him, besides incurring heavy obligations in addition.”

Similar instructions were given to other agents, and a paper called the Harangue, drawn up according to his suggestions, was also extensively circulated.  This document is important to all who are interested in his history and character.  He had not before issued a missive so stamped with the warm, religious impress of the reforming party.  Sadly, but without despondency, the Harangue recalled the misfortunes of the past; and depicted the gloom of the present.  Earnestly, but not fanatically, it stimulated hope and solicited aid for the future.  “Although the appeals made to the Prince,” so ran a part of the document, “be of diverse natures, and various in their recommendations, yet do they all tend to the advancement of God’s glory, and to the liberation of the fatherland.  This it is which enables him and those who think with him to endure hunger; thirst, cold, heat, and all the misfortunes which Heaven may send. . . . . .  Our enemies spare neither their money nor their labor; will ye be colder and duller than your foes?  Let, then, each church congregation set an example to the others.  We read that King Saul, when he would liberate the men of Jabez from the hands of Nahad, the Ammonite, hewed a yoke of oxen in pieces, and sent them as tokens over all Israel, saying, ’Ye who will not follow Saul and Samuel, with them shall be dealt even as with these oxen.  And the fear of the Lord came upon the people, they came forth, and the men of Jabez were delivered.’  Ye have here the same warning, look to it, watch well ye that despise it, lest the wrath of God, which the men of Israel by their speedy obedience escaped, descend upon your heads.  Ye may say that ye are banished men.  ’Tis true:  but thereby are ye not stripped of all faculty of rendering service; moreover, your assistance is asked for one who will restore ye to your homes.  Ye may say that ye have been robbed of all your goods; yet many of you have still something remaining, and of that little ye should contribute, each his mite.  Ye say that you have given much already.  ’Tis true, but the enemy is again in the field; fierce for your subjugation, sustained by the largess of his supporters.  Will ye be less courageous, less generous, than your foes.”