The others followed the bold example. The king and his company were
overawed by their holy bravery.

[Illustration: MELVILLE BEFORE KING JAMES.

Andrew Melville was able to stand before the king because he habitually
stood before God. He was wise and strong to give advice and warning in
the name of Christ to the sovereign of the nation, because he took his
orders from Jesus Christ, the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS. He was
banished for his faithfulness, and died in France, in 1622, being 77
years old.]

At another time Melville became so animated in his remonstrance against
the despotic monarch, that he took hold of his arm, and gave him an
admonition such as few kings have ever heard. His passionate eloquence
flowed in a torrent: "I must tell you, Sir, there are two kings, and two
kingdoms in Scotland. There is King James VI., head of the commonwealth;
and there is Christ Jesus, the King of the Church, whose subject King
James is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head,
but a member. Sir, when you were in your swaddling clothes, Christ Jesus
reigned freely in this land, in spite of all his enemies." The words
penetrated the guilty soul like flashes from the eye of God. For the
time the men had exchanged places; Melville was king.

Melville suffered for his faithfulness; he was banished. Yet he was
rewarded with a green old age and a triumphant death. At the age of
sixty-eight he wrote from the land of his exile, "I thank God, I eat, I
drink, I sleep, as well as I did thirty years bygone, and better than
when I was young. My heart is yet a Scotch heart, and as good, or better
than ever, both toward God and man. The Lord only be praised for this,