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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 2, 1877

Spanish Law Disrupts Protestant Worship in Cadiz

Under the new ecclesiastical laws in Spain, the Catholic prelates and priests have almost unbounded opportunities to annoy the Protestants in their assemblies for public worship. For example, a Protestant congregation of four hundred at Jueves Santo were interrupted while at worship by the entrance of two armed policemen, who ordered the preacher to break off his sermon and dismiss the congregation. It appears that the Bishop of Cadiz had complained that, although the doors were closed, the preacher’s voice was heard in the street, and the service was therefore “a public manifestation” and a violation of the laws.