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Title: The hand of God in history, or, Divine providence illustrated in the extension and establishment of Christianity throughout the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Read, Hollis, 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : John E. Potter & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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one any thing but foster the vine brought out ofEgypt. And what has been the result ? The church has out-rode every storm. She has passed unscathed by thelightnings of human violence. Like the oak that strikesits roots deeper, and clings to its rocky soil the moretenaciously, as the storm beats and the tempest rages,the church has been strengthened amidst the rigors ofpersecution, and nourished by the blood of her martyrs. But if we descend to details, we shall be not the lessgratified to discern the love of God engaged, and his om-nij)otent arm made bare to defend and favor his belovedZion. I shall direct your minds to a few historical eventswhich illustrate this interesting truth. 1. The expulsion of the Moors from Spain. IJut a few years elapsed after Mohammed broachedhis impostures to the world, before Moslemism spreadover nearly all Asia, the eastern part of Europe, and agreat part of Africa. The portions of Africa adjacent toSpain early became its strong-holds. The countries now
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THE MOORS EXPELLED FROM SPAIN. 103 called Morocco and Fez were then called Mauritania, anaits inhabitants Moors. They were of Arabian origin, andseem to have been an enterprising, warlike, intelligentpeople. They formed the channel through which theknowledge of the arts and sciences, and an acquaintancewith civilization, traveled into Europe. Taking advan-tage of the distracted state of Spain, the Moors took pos-session of large portions of that country which they heldnear eight centuries, from 713 to 1492. Here thejestablished a magnificent kingdom, cultivated learning,while all the rest of Europe was sunk in barbarism, andleft behind them enduring monuments of their industryand skill in the arts. We may take, as some specimen of the magnificenceof the Saracen empire, the single city of Cordova; which,in point of wealth and grandeur, was scarcely inferior toits proud rival on the banks of the Tigris. A space oftwenty-four miles in length and six in breadth, along themargin of the Gua

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