Post by TheFirebrand on Aug 22, 2012 10:34:32 GMT -6
Two evangelists face a mob
"On a preaching tour in 1741, John Cennick and Howell Harris found the townspeople of Swindon, Wiltshire (England) less than friendly toward their message.
The mob fired guns over our heads, holding the muzzles so near to our faces that Howell Harris and myself were both made as black as tinkers with the powder. We were not affrighted, but opened our breasts, telling them we were ready to lay down our lives.…
Then they got dust out of the highway and covered us all over; and then they played an engine [catapult] upon us, which they filled out of the stinking ditches. While they played on brother Harris, I preached; and when they turned the engine upon me, he preached. This they continued till they spoiled the engine; and they threw whole buckets of water and mud over us.
After we left the town, they dressed up two images, called one Cennick and the other Harris, and then burnt them. The next day they gathered about the home of Mr. Lawrence, who had received us, and broke all of his windows with stones, cut and wounded four of his family, and knocked down one of his daughters."
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I have been treated poorly in my life over many things including my telling of truth and holding to my morals, but this sort of bullying of its time has converted in some cases to a "virtual" treatment, meaning cyber bullying ...
I receive such from a lot of people on here. More from so called Christians than any other. The Bible says this will happen to those in the truth and it will come from those who are "brainwashed" so to speak, to believe the lies and deny what the Bible says ...
They are so badly brainwashed that they cannot even see that their behavior and attitudes are exactly what the Bible refers too as being the ones who reject Gods word and abuse the messengers of truth ...
I grew up in an abusive household. My parents would occasionally watch movies or programs on Hallmark or Lifetime that reflected the same behavior they held towards me, and yet they still could not see themselves in those stories. This is a mentality I do not understand and it is why I have previously stated I truly believe some people to be programmed to be the way they are ...
The same reason I seek no credit for myself. I see myself as programmed by God to be how I am and to tell His message no matter how I am treated or ridiculed. That opposing force only reminds me of just how deep in the truth I am ...
So calling me names and making accusations against me not only proves I'm doing the right thing, it also makes the accusers no better than any other cyber bully as well as blasphemers against God ...
"On a preaching tour in 1741, John Cennick and Howell Harris found the townspeople of Swindon, Wiltshire (England) less than friendly toward their message.
The mob fired guns over our heads, holding the muzzles so near to our faces that Howell Harris and myself were both made as black as tinkers with the powder. We were not affrighted, but opened our breasts, telling them we were ready to lay down our lives.…
Then they got dust out of the highway and covered us all over; and then they played an engine [catapult] upon us, which they filled out of the stinking ditches. While they played on brother Harris, I preached; and when they turned the engine upon me, he preached. This they continued till they spoiled the engine; and they threw whole buckets of water and mud over us.
After we left the town, they dressed up two images, called one Cennick and the other Harris, and then burnt them. The next day they gathered about the home of Mr. Lawrence, who had received us, and broke all of his windows with stones, cut and wounded four of his family, and knocked down one of his daughters."
...
I have been treated poorly in my life over many things including my telling of truth and holding to my morals, but this sort of bullying of its time has converted in some cases to a "virtual" treatment, meaning cyber bullying ...
I receive such from a lot of people on here. More from so called Christians than any other. The Bible says this will happen to those in the truth and it will come from those who are "brainwashed" so to speak, to believe the lies and deny what the Bible says ...
They are so badly brainwashed that they cannot even see that their behavior and attitudes are exactly what the Bible refers too as being the ones who reject Gods word and abuse the messengers of truth ...
I grew up in an abusive household. My parents would occasionally watch movies or programs on Hallmark or Lifetime that reflected the same behavior they held towards me, and yet they still could not see themselves in those stories. This is a mentality I do not understand and it is why I have previously stated I truly believe some people to be programmed to be the way they are ...
The same reason I seek no credit for myself. I see myself as programmed by God to be how I am and to tell His message no matter how I am treated or ridiculed. That opposing force only reminds me of just how deep in the truth I am ...
So calling me names and making accusations against me not only proves I'm doing the right thing, it also makes the accusers no better than any other cyber bully as well as blasphemers against God ...
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