By Menno Simons, John Christian Wenger
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Menno himself tells of one man whom he had baptized in West Friesland and who was executed January 8, 1539, because he had sheltered Menno. About the year 1539, writes Menno, a very pious and God-fearing man named Tjard Reynders was apprehended in the place where I sojourned, for the reason that he had received me, a homeless man, out of compassion and love, into his house, although in secret. A short time after this he was, after a free confession of his faith, executed and broken on the wheel as a valiant soldier of Christ, according to the example of his Lord, although he had the testimony, even of his enemies, that he was an unblamable and pious man.
Their blood, he felt, was upon his soul, and there it burned deeply to his shame. The blood of these people, he said, became such a burden to me that I could not endure it nor find rest in my soul. It was true that he had spoken against some of the abominations of the papal system, but out of fear of the cross of his Lord he had not made a clean breach with the whole system. The tragedy of the Old-Cloisterites brought Menno to the parting of the ways; he now saw clearly his duty. As a servant of God he could not evade the responsibility to help the erring sheep, and as one who professed obedience and trust in God he dared no longer refuse to take up the cross of persecution and suffering whatever the cost might be.
Like the typical Page 5 village priest of the time he did not take his office nor his life very seriously. He gave little time or effort to study, but rather, as he himself confesses, joined his fellow priests in playing cards, drinking, and frivolities of all sorts, as was the custom of such unfruitful men. But outward appearances did not tell the full story of Menno's life during his twelve years in the priesthood. Very early doubts about certain dogmas of the church arose to plague his conscience, and his life was made increasingly miserable by an inner soul-struggle which did not cease until he broke the bonds which bound him to the Catholic Church and stepped forth in the faith and liberty of the Gospel.
