Identifier: ourdayinlightofp00spic (find matches)
Title: Our day in the light of prophecy and providence
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Spicer, William Ambrose, 1866-
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Publisher: Oshawa, Ont., Canadian Watchman Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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my accountof the march a mere fiction. But it is strictly true; and I must add,the place is so frightful that even some of the Vaudois themselves wereterror-strucTt when they saw by daylight the nature of the spot they hadpassed in the dark, When the day broke, every eye in the plain below was turned to the Balsiglia. That day the four hundred ropes which Catinat hadbrought with him were to be put in requisition, and the feux-de-joie solong prepared were to be lighted at Pinerolo. What was their amaze-ment to find the Balsiglia abandoned! The Vaudois had escaped andwere gone, and might be seen upon the distant mountains, climbing thesnows, far out of the reach of their would-be captors. Well might theysing, Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers.The snare is broken, and we are escaped. — History of Protestantism, Vol. II, hooJc 16, chap. 15. They reached their own valley of the Pra del Tor, and to their joy found, all unexpectedly, agents of the Duke of Savoy,
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AARON AND HUR HOLDINGUP MOSES* HANDS **The Lord said unto Moses, Write thisfor a memorial in a book. Ex. 17:14. Deliverance from Armed Hosts 417 their prince, with a message of good will, giving authority tobring back their families and fellow believers from all placeswhither they had fled. Thus again the Waldensian peoplefound homes among the mountains that had hidden theirfathers away from Romes wrath in the days of old. The Relief of Leyden The armies of Spain and the Inquisition were seeking tosubdue Holland. The city of Leyden was invested until its in-habitants were famishing. In order to send relief and food to the starving city, AA^illiam of Orange conceived the desperateplan of opening the dikes to the sea, and flooding the land todrive away the enemy, and to allow a flotilla of relief shipsunder Boisot to sail to the gates of the city. The great dikes were broken through, but the waters failedto flood the country deep enough to be efiective. The invest-ing army scoffed at the

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