Sunday was the day after his bereavement, and Mr Rose was silent; but the following Sunday he preached at Mr Holland's house, where the Gospellers gathered to hear him. Thekla remained with her mother; she would not leave her alone with her sorrowful thoughts. It was a rainy morning, but in the days before umbrellas were invented, rain was less thought of than it has been since. John Avery and his wife, Dr Thorpe, Esther, and Robin, set forth, despite the rain. Before they had gone many yards, they overtook a crowd of people, all running riverwards; and Isoult, looking towards the water, fancied that she could see the standard of the royal barge. "Whither away?" asked John of some of the crowd. But no answer was vouchsafed, except a cry of "The Tower!" till suddenly Mr Underhill hove in sight, and was questioned at once. "What, know you not what all London knoweth?" said he; "that the Lady Elizabeth's Grace is this morrow a prisoner of the Tower? 'Tis very true, I warrant you: would it were less! This moment is the Queen's barge at hand with her. Will you see?" "Have with you," said Dr Thorpe, who never missed a sight, if he could possibly help it. The rest went on. Mr Rose looked older, they thought, and more worn than was his wont; but his voice was as gentle and his smile as sweet as ever. He came to them as soon as they came in, and wanted to know all they could tell him of Mrs Rose and Thekla, though his eyes asked rather than his lips; yet his first words were a query why Thekla was not with them. His sermon was on three words of David, "He shall live." And first he showed that David spoke this of Christ, by prophecy: and then divided his subject into three heads--"He hath lived," "He doth live," "He shall live." And under the first head, he pointed out how from all eternity Christ had lived with the Father, and was His delight, rejoicing alway before Him; and how then He had lived a little babe and a weary man upon this earth defiled with sin, amidst a people who knew Him not, and would not receive Him. Then coming to the next part, "He doth live," he showed what he now does, standing before the throne of God, within the true veil and beside the better mercy-seat, presenting in Himself every one of His people, and pleading every moment for them. And lastly, "He shall live." He shall come again; He shall reign over the earth; He shall live for ever. And "because He liveth, we shall live also." If He could die again, then might we. But He dieth no more, having died once for us; and we that believe in Him, He having died in our stead, can never die the second death. He hath abolished death, as well for His Church as for Himself: He that is the Living One for evermore holdeth the keys of Hell and of death. And for this cause, even the natural death, not one can suffer except by His permission. Mr Rose bade his hearers not to fall into the blunder that evil men held their lives in their hands.