. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. - to the worse, afforded an impressive lesson, THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 603 but one which the traitor nobles of the south had not conscience enough to profitby. The Spaniards said that he died of shame at failing to earn his heavybribe. The friends he had betrayed remembered his early promise, and cast themantle of charity over his A FISHKRMAX3 CHILD. CHAPTER XXXIX. INDEPENDENCE. HE summer of 1581 was marked by severalnotable events and one of great im-porta
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. - to the worse, afforded an impressive lesson, THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 603 but one which the traitor nobles of the south had not conscience enough to profitby. The Spaniards said that he died of shame at failing to earn his heavybribe. The friends he had betrayed remembered his early promise, and cast themantle of charity over his A FISHKRMAX3 CHILD. CHAPTER XXXIX. INDEPENDENCE. HE summer of 1581 was marked by severalnotable events and one of great im-portance. The services of the Churchof Rome were prohibited in Brussels,Antwerp, Utrecht, and several cities ofHolland. This intolerance was not tothe mind of Orange, but he could notcheck it at the time, and the step wasnot without its excuses/ Some of theclergy, as we have seen, were activeagents of Philip and Parma, and mostof them had more zeal than feeling was almost universal among the Protestants,that a priest was by virtue of his office the foe of friars in the capital made themselves so obnoxiousthat the magistrates were moved to expose the tricks bywhich the superstitions of the ignorant were wroughtupon. They charged that bits of lath were dailyexhibited as fragments of the cross ; that the bonesof dogs and monkeys were held up for adoration as those of saints ; and thatoil was poured habitually into holes drilled in the head
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