Ulli Schedme, Surnamed Schneider

The fire which the persecutors had kindled went on burning, and their mad fury did not cease, until they had also seized a zealous and God-fearing minister of the church named Ulli Schedme, surnamed Schneider, by descent from Hirtzenstal, in the seignioralty of Wadischwyl.

In his imprisonment all manner of vexation and sorrow was inflicted upon him, to induce him to conform to the common mode of worship in the churches, and to turn him away from his own people, with whom he had until then been associated. But since he could not consent to this, and time went on, he continually grew weaker and weaker because of the bad food and the other hardships he suffered, until his soul left his body. So, because of his faithfulness, he became through a natural death an heir of the eternal and blissful life, the full possession of which the Lord, at the last day, will grant to, and make partakers of, all those who have here faithfully and steadfastly served Him. Tract, M. Meyli, folio 6, B., number 4.

"Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who love his appearing." Second Timothy 4, verse 8.