Whilst a good conscience is my bail,
And innocence my liberty.
On another square he wrote, Mutare vel timere sperno, and on a third pane, sed victa Catoni.[[31]]
A Mr. Barton, on retiring with a fortune made in the wool-trade, built a fair stone house at Holme, in Nottinghamshire, in the window of which was the following couplet,—an humble acknowledgment of the means whereby he had acquired his estate:—
I thank God, and ever shall;
It is the sheep hath paid for all.
FRANCKE’S ENCOURAGING DISCOVERY.
It is said that when Francke was engaged in the great work of erecting his world-known Orphan-House at Halle, for the means of which he looked to the Lord in importunate prayer from day to day, an apparently accidental circumstance made an abiding impression on him and those about him. A workman, in digging a part of the foundation, found a small silver coin, with the following inscription:—
“Jehova, Conditor, Condita Coronide Coronet.”
(May Jehovah, the builder, finish the building.)