How God Protects Us

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 25.

How God Protects Us.

THE Bible is radiant with promises of divine protection and guidance, and Christian history is full of remarkable examples of their fulfillment. Dr. C. S. Robinson thus refers to well-known facts: "A tide was kept back strangely for twelve hours once, and so a host of Christians in Holland were saved from slaughter by the Duke of Alva. A tremendous wind once scattered the Armada of Spain over the wide wastes of the North Sea, and so Protestant England was spared to the world. John Knox moved his usual seat away from before the window one night, pressed by a feeling he could neither understand nor resist; an hour later there came a musket-ball, crushing the glass and burying itself harmlessly in the opposite wall. Such things occur almost every day in some conspicuous and exposed lives. One man has a conviction that he must not take a certain train, another feels that danger lies in his embarking on a certain ship; the train is afterwards wrecked, or the vessel is lost; now the man knows that God interposed and protected him, and he offers a new consecration of his life thus spared as the only return he can make."—Ex.