"If loving hearts were never lonely, If all they wish might always be, Accepting what they look for only, They might be glad, but not in Thee." --ANNA L. WARING. It is a proverbial truth that thunderstorms clear the air. And it would seem as though that eventful and terrible period of English history, known as the Wars of the Roses, had cleared the political air for the coming Reformation. How little those who took part in it realised the time to follow! To the men of that day it was either a wrestle for personal fame, or a passionate enthusiasm for the establishment of Right. To the women with whom it was not the latter, it must have been a meaningless agony--a passion with no visible end,…
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