No se Rinde by Walter G. Bond

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

No se Rinde

By Walter G. Bond

A Message From Spain

According to the monkish historians, Zaragoza, in Aragon, was founded by Noah’s grandson Tubal, in the year 242 post diluvium. The former name of city was Salduba, and is said to mean, in Chaldaic, “the property of Tubal,” or “the city of the sun.” Be this as it may, its strategical importance did not fail to attract the eye of Cæsar Augustus, who walled the city, and quartered here several legions of his soldiers. It then took the name of Cæsarea Augusta, which was converted by the Moors into Saracosta, to become finally Zaragoza.

One hundred years ago a French army of eighteen thousand men bombarded the city, and terrible were the results. To-day, one lone colporteur is beginning a far more important campaign, by scattering tracts and papers, filled with the message for this last generation. During that French siege, several proposals of capitulation on honorable terms were made to the Spanish; but they always responded, “Zaragoza no se rinde” (Zaragoza does not surrender). So to-day, though this whole country is filled with idolatry and superstition, and though the battle goes hard and slow, by God’s help the soldiers of the cross will never surrender until the battle is won, and the Life-giver comes to give the victor’s crown. WALTER G. BOND. Zaragoza.

1. THE SPANISH COLPORTEUR'S
“BURRO EXPRESS”
2. INTERIOR OF AN ARMENIAN MIS-
SIONARY HOME
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