Woe to them that shed the blood of saints ! Woe to them that have slain the husband and cast forth the child , the tender infant , to wander homeless and hungry and cold till he die , and have saved the mother alive in the cruelty of their tender mercies ! Woe to them in their lifetime ! Cursed are they in the delight and pleasure of their hearts ! Woe to them in their death-hour , whether it come swiftly with blood and violence or after long and lingering pain ! Woe in the dark house , in the rottenness of the grave , when the children 's children shall revile the ashes of the fathers ! Woe , woe , woe , at the judgment , when all the persecuted and all the slain in this bloody land , and the father , the mother and the child , shall await them in a day that they can not escape ! Seed of the faith , seed of the faith , ye whose hearts are moving with a power that ye know not , arise , wash your hands of this innocent blood ! Lift your voices , chosen ones , cry aloud , and call down a woe and a judgment with me ! '' Having thus given vent to the flood of malignity which she mistook for inspiration , the speaker was silent . Her voice was succeeded by the hysteric shrieks of several women , but the feelings of the audience generally had not been drawn onward in the current with her own . They remained stupefied , stranded , as it were , in the midst of a torrent which deafened them by its roaring , but might not move them by its violence . The clergyman , who could not hitherto have ejected the usurper of his pulpit otherwise than by bodily force , now addressed her in the tone of just indignation and legitimate authority . `` Get you down , woman , from the holy place which you profane , '' he said , `` Is it to the Lord 's house that you come to pour forth the foulness of your heart and the inspiration of the devil ? Get you down , and remember that the sentence of death is on you -- yea , and shall be executed , were it but for this day 's work . '' `` I go , friend , I go , for the voice hath had its utterance , '' replied she , in a depressed , and even mild , tone . `` I have done my mission unto thee and to thy people ; reward me with stripes , imprisonment or death , as ye shall be permitted . '' The weakness of exhausted passion caused her steps to totter as she descended the pulpit stairs . The people , in the mean while , were stirring to and fro on the floor of the house , whispering among themselves and glancing toward the intruder . Many of them now recognized her as the woman who had assaulted the governor with frightful language as he passed by the window of her prison ; they knew , also , that she was adjudged to suffer death , and had been preserved only by an involuntary banishment into the wilderness .
The new outrage XXXXX which she had provoked her fate seemed to render further lenity impossible , and a gentleman in military dress , with a stout man of inferior rank , drew toward the door of the meetinghouse and awaited her approach .
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