. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. nts ; and thatoil was poured habitually into holes drilled in the heads of statues, that thepopulace might believe in their miraculous sweating. These impostures enragedthe Calvinists, and produced continual danger of collision and riot. From themodern point of view, it is lamentable that any kind of religious meetings shouldbe interfered with : but religion three hundred years ago was apt to be closelyintermixed with politics. All that was done was to suppress the Romish
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. nts ; and thatoil was poured habitually into holes drilled in the heads of statues, that thepopulace might believe in their miraculous sweating. These impostures enragedthe Calvinists, and produced continual danger of collision and riot. From themodern point of view, it is lamentable that any kind of religious meetings shouldbe interfered with : but religion three hundred years ago was apt to be closelyintermixed with politics. All that was done was to suppress the Romish wor-ship for the time in certain places. There was no meddling with private con-science, no forcing people to attend services they disliked. Philip, with his usual wrongheadedness, conceived the notion that his sisterMargaret of Parma had been so popular in the Netherlands that they would beglad to have her back; whereas the fact was that she had simply been lessoffensive and less hated than her successors. Accordingly he sent her there tobe regent again, restricting her son to the command of the army. Alexander(604). THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 605 was the very ast man to submit to such an arrangement, or bear a dividedauthority. On his mothers arrival in August, he told her that the plan wouldnot work ; one of them must resign. She meekly submitted, aud asked to berecalled. The king was obliged to consent, and to confirm Farnese in his fullpowers. The duchess, at her brothers express desire, remained for two years inthe southern provinces, living privately under another name. THE KING DISOWNED. By the formal declaration of the national will, any representative of Philipwas now a mere intruder in the Netherlands. On July 26th the Estates, meet-ing at the Hague, renounced their allegiance in a solemn Act of preamble of this document was conceived in the spirit, not of democracy,but of constitutional monarch}. All mankind know that a prince is appointedof God
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