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Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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W/ ORIENTAL BISHOPS. the tumult, for the moment at least. He told them that it was too late to savetheir friends: the attempt would merely expose themselves and the city to- a ter-rible retribution. Most of them listened; five hundred foolishly went forth, tocause the death, not of their enemies, but of the last fugitives from Ostrawell.De Beauvoir called his men from the pursuit. They had taken three hundredprisoners : these they now shot, and turned against the men of Antwerp, whohastily fled back within their gates. This was not the end of the trouble. Fifteen thousand Calvinists barri-caded the Mere, opened the jail, and scorned the authorities. There was terriblefear in the city that day and night; it would probably have been sacked, but forthe princes masterful measures. The fires of sectarian bigotry raged fiercely:the three factions, Calvinist, Lutheran, and Catholic, all hated one another. Thetwo latter included most of Antwerps wealth and aristocracy. By arming them,
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49° THE RED GATE, ANTWERP. THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 491 Orange averted a combat for which all were ready. On the fifteenth, near fortythousand men were encamped in three different parts of the city. On the nextday the danger was over. William, with his friend and colleague Hoogstraten,then associated with him in the government of the city, had r.dden to the Mereand induced the mutineers to hear reason. While these deeds of arms were doing, the political situation was changing.The regent had recovered from the alarm of the previous August and disownedthe Accord; with the subsequent success of her officers, she grew bolder, moretricky, and more tyrannical. Orange had spent part of the winter in his govern-ment of Holland, Zealand, and Utrecht, where he was almost as much needed asat Antwerp. The duchess wished him to restrict the Protestant preaching to theopen country : he wrote her that the open country was under water. She agreedto allow it on the wharves, and then presently t

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