Two boys in the hospital. A rich cooper. IN THE TWENTY-FIFTH BURNING, SIX PERSONS. A strange boy. IN THE TWENTY-SIXTH BURNING, SEVEN PERSONS. Weydenbush, a senator. The little daughter of Valkenberger. The little son of the town council bailiff. IN THE TWENTY-SEVENTH BURNING, SEVEN PERSONS. A strange boy. A strange woman. Another boy. IN THE TWENTY-EIGHTH BURNING, SIX PERSONS. The infant daughter of Dr. Schütz. A blind girl. IN THE TWENTY-NINTH BURNING, SEVEN PERSONS. The fat noble lady (Edelfrau). A doctor of divinity. _Item._ ⎧ “Strange” men and women, _i.e._, ⎪ _Protestants_, 28 ⎪ Citizens, apparently all WEALTHY people, 100 _Summary_: ⎨ Boys, girls, and little children, 34 ⎪ --- ⎩ In nineteen months, 162 persons. “There were,” says Wright, “little girls of from seven to ten years of age among the witches, and _seven and twenty_ of them were convicted and burnt,” at some of the other _brände_, or burnings. “The numbers brought to trial in these terrible proceedings were so great, and they were treated with so little consideration, that it was usual not even to take the trouble of setting down their names, but they were cited as the accused No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and so on.[91] The Jesuits took their confessions in private.” What room is there in a theology which exacts such holocausts as these to appease the bloody appetites of its priests for the following gentle words: “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of Heaven.” “Even so it is not the will of your Father ... that one of these little ones should perish.” “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it _were better for him that a millstone were hanged_ about his neck and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea.” We sincerely hope that the above words have proved no vain threat to these child-burners.