. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. of Orange, had torn the interior to pieces. He hadbeen obliged to leave the city, and the cowardly magistrates, though they werewarned of what was coming, took no adequate measures of protection. Grownbold with impunity, the same mob in the same-night sacked thirty smallerchurches and all the convents. One hundred fanatics are said to have done allthe actual work of destruction in Antwerp. Though poor and ragged, they stolenothing; nor did they aim at any human life. Simi
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. of Orange, had torn the interior to pieces. He hadbeen obliged to leave the city, and the cowardly magistrates, though they werewarned of what was coming, took no adequate measures of protection. Grownbold with impunity, the same mob in the same-night sacked thirty smallerchurches and all the convents. One hundred fanatics are said to have done allthe actual work of destruction in Antwerp. Though poor and ragged, they stolenothing; nor did they aim at any human life. Similar scenes were enacted at Ghent, Valenciennes, and almost everywherethroughout the provinces. At Tournay some rioters, acquainted with the annalsof the past, dug up the embalmed body of the Duke Adolphus, who had com-mitted a famous outrage on his father a hundred years before. In Flanders fourhundred churches were sacked—and one man, who had pocketed a little of thegoods spoiled, was hanged by his companions. A few competent leaders, alittle presence of mind among the magistrates, could have prevented most if not. 4«3 4§4 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY.
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