A Protecting Providence

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 8, 1907

A Protecting Providence

The Scotch reformer, John Knox, had many enemies, who sought to compass his destruction. He was in the habit of sitting in a particular chair in his own house, with his back to the window. One evening, however, when assembling his family, he would neither occupy his accustomed seat, nor allow anybody else to do so. That very evening a bullet was sent through the window with a design to kill him. It grazed the chair he usually occupied, and made a hole in the candlestick.—Selected.