South Africa Deploys 25,000 Troops to End Week of Rioting, by Adam McManus, Worldview in Five Minutes
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Some of the early settlers of South Africa were the Huguenots - French Protestants that fled France after the St. Bartholomew Massacre of 1572, where 1,200 Huguenots were massacred (Source). Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) tells a sad anecdote about a 12 year old "Boy King" (Charles IX) who was encouraged by his mother (Catherine Medici) to order the massacre:
"Charles IX of France, in his youth, had humane and tender sensibilities. The fiend who had tempted him was the mother who had nursed him. When she first proposed to him the massacre of the Huguenots, he shrank from it with horror: 'No, no, madam! They are my loving subjects." Then was the critical hour of his life. Had he cherished that natural sensitiveness to bloodshed, St. Bartholomew's Eve would never have disgraced the history of his kingdom, and he himself would have escaped the fearful remorse which crazed him on his death bed. To his physician he said in his last hours, 'Asleep or awake, I see the mangled forms of the Huguenots passing before me. They point to their open wounds, and mock me. Oh, that I had spared at least the little infants at the breast!' Then he broke out in agonizing cries and screams. Bloody sweat oozed from the pores of his skin. He was one of the very few cases in history which confirm the possibility of the phenomenon which attended our Lord's anguish in Gethsemane." - Austin Phelps, as quoted in Spurgeon's Sermon Notes
The Threat of Land Invasion in South Africa (Podcast), by Dr. Peter Hammond
A Warning to America, by Evangelist Keith Daniels of South Africa
A Christian History of Africa, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Recommended Christian hymn/song:
Please Don't Send Me to Africa
Recommended reading:
World Finally Notices Plight of South African Farmers - thenewamerican.com
The Covenant, by James Michener (This is a historical novel of the white settlers in South Africa)
The Truth Behind Farm Terrorism in South Africa, by Dr. Peter Hammond
Here is one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Hammond:
"You may not like guns, and you may not like God. But if someone is breaking into your house, the first thing you're going to do is call someone who has a gun. And the second thing you're going to do is pray that they arrive before it's too late!" - From the podcast by Dr. Peter Hammond, The Holocaust in Rwanda
