Latimer! Be Careful What You Say

William Barclay tells the story of Hugh Latimer, one of England’s great preachers and leaders of the English reformation (16th cent.), eventually a martyr for that cause. On an occasion when Latimer was preaching in Westminster Abbey and realized that King Henry VIII was in the congregation, as Latimer was standing in the pulpit he soliloquized: Latimer! Latimer! Latimer! Be careful what you say. The King of England is here!” Then his…