The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1868-09-30

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BURIED ALIVE FOR CHRIST,
Two paiden ladies lived on The north
rampant OF Antwerp. They had Formerly
prolessed the Prots sstapt religion, and bad
been thrown into prison for that crime. but
the lear Of further spersecutiaa. human
weakness. or perhaps sinrere. caHylc ton,
had caused them q renpuace The erfor ni
their ways. aud they now, vent ~, mass.
bvt they had a maid-seryant 40 0yeatsOlage.
Anna van den Haze BY sa,ne. who was
stanch in that reiorMed faith, Ia which she
had ben born aud bred. The Jesuits de-
nounceJ this maid servant to Ihe civil au.
lharily, and CLAIMED her condemnation
and execution Under he edicts Of 1910.
decrers which esery one, had supposed as
"bsslete as the Statutes Of DrarM which
They had 80 entirely pat 10 shame. The
sentence having BEEN 05ta,ned from the
dncile and priest-rIdden magistrates, Anna
van den Hove was breaght 10 Brussels. and
informed that she was al once. 70 be buried
alive. AT the same time the jrsnits told
her that by converting herself 60 lie Church
she might escape punlshnrnt. When Mag
Henry iv. Was summoned 10 tcnouncc lhsl /
same Husurnot faith. vi which he WAS The
political smbodimsut and Tie miiilary
cnamplnn. the candid nan answered by .ll.y
simple demand 10 be Instructed, When
the proper .moment came, the inStxuction
Was seeonptissed ~ an Aft:nhbis6pp with
the rapidity Of magic. Halt an hour undid
the aors oi hall a Lifetime thus expedi-
tipusly could religious conversion be eff
tected when an earthly crown WAS It's
garrdon. Inc poor serving maid was less
upon 10 cunyictien- In hei simple lanatI.
clm, she too talked of q clown. and saw 4
descrndios irom heaven on her poor lorlorh
head As the reward, not Vi aposlasy. but Of
s,.adls,tpess. She asked her torutr rrs
hes they spuld expect her 10 abanden her
religion for lear OF, death. She had read
her B,hIe every day. she said. and had
found ualhing there Of the Pope or purga-
tory, masses, ln,ocatiun oil salats, or the
ahsolulion of sins. except through the blood
VI thr blessed. Redermer. She interiered
with no one Who thought diiiern rntly she
quarIeled with no. ones religious belief
she had payeJ for enlightenment from him
II she we're in error; and the result was
Iha, she lell strengthened in her simplicity
and resolved Ia do nothing against her cvn'
science. Rather than add tins sin to the
manifold ones committed by hee, she pre-.
ferred. she said. 10 die the death. So Ann'
|, Ivan dea Hove was led. one fne midsummer
aprnlng, 70 the bayfield, outside Of Brus.
sells. between two Jesuits. followed BY 1
, number Of . peculiar kind af MONKS cslle,
, love. brothers. These holy men goadet
her as she weht. telling her tha! she wa
, the devils earrion. and calling on her u
repent q: the last moment. and thus saw,
her HE. and escape eternal damustiop be.
side. Bul the pour soul had NJ ear Tor them
and rrisd out that. like Stephen. she sas
the hrasens opening. aud llls angel, slocp.
!. ing down to conlucl hes lar away from The
! pawer of the evil one. When they cam,
/ 10 the bs, field thsy found the pit alread,
dug, and tue maid. servant wss ordered tt
descend into il. The executioner ther
covered her with earth up 10 the waist, aut
las, solnmons was made to her to renounc,
!, her errors. She refused. and then tbs eartl
vas piled upor her. and the hangman jump
ed upon the grave until IL was flattened anC
irm. AoiItys History Of ias AaA1iaad,.
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