In his much-loved 23rd Psalm, David wrote, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me.” There have been boys and girls who have shown true courage in the face of death.
Andrew Hyslop was a seventeen-year-old boy who lived in Scotland in the terrible days when the soldiers hunted down the Christians called Covenanters. Andrew’s home was burned, and he and his widowed mother and brother wandered about from place to place on the moors and in the mountains.
Finally Andrew was taken prisoner and sentenced to be shot.
“Pull your hat down over your eyes,” was the rough command of the soldier who had been ordered to do the wicked deed.
Andrew refused. Gazing steadfastly into his persecutor’s eyes, with his Bible in his hand, he said firmly, “I can look at you without a fear; I am not ashamed. But how will you face God in the day when you shall be judged by what is written in this Book?”
The soul of the brave young martyr was soon safe with his Saviour in heaven.
ML-08/13/1978