Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . A REFUGE FOR THEOPPRESSED ^^ The strength of the hills is Hisalso. Ps. 95:4. IN EARLY TIMES OF ENGLISHNONCONFORMITY The Lord also will he a refuge for the oppressed,a refuge in times of trouMe. Ps. 9: 9. Look where we may, to the times of crisis, w^hen witnessesfor truth have endured oppression and trial for consciencesake, and there we shall find evidences of the divine handstretched forth in special providences and deliverances. Such a time followed the enforcement of the Act of Uni-formity in England, in 1662. Two thousand ministers refusedt
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . A REFUGE FOR THEOPPRESSED ^^ The strength of the hills is Hisalso. Ps. 95:4. IN EARLY TIMES OF ENGLISHNONCONFORMITY The Lord also will he a refuge for the oppressed,a refuge in times of trouMe. Ps. 9: 9. Look where we may, to the times of crisis, w^hen witnessesfor truth have endured oppression and trial for consciencesake, and there we shall find evidences of the divine handstretched forth in special providences and deliverances. Such a time followed the enforcement of the Act of Uni-formity in England, in 1662. Two thousand ministers refusedto subscribe to the declarations of unfeigned assent toeverything in the prayer book that had just been adopted byParliament for the Church of England. They lost theirpositions, and the support that went with the churches theyhad served. The poet Wordsworth wrote of them in his EcclesiasticalSketches: 28 433 434 Our Day in the Light of Providence Nor shall the eternal roll of praise rejectThose unconforming; whom one rigorous dayDrives from their
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