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Thursday, August 14, 2014

He Shall Live Because Of Your Sacrifice

During the seventeenth century, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sentenced a soldier to be shot for his crimes.  The execution was to take place at the ringing of the evening curfew bell.  However, the bell did not sound.  The soldier's fiancée had climbed into the belfry and clung to the great clapper of the bell to prevent it from striking.  

When she was summoned by Cromwell to account for her actions, she wept as she showed him her bruised and bleeding hands.  Cromwell's heart was touched and he said, "Your lover shall live because of your sacrifice.  Curfew shall not ring tonight!"

Our Daily Bread, quoted in The Speaker's Quote Book (Christian Literature Crusade, 1997)

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