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Chosen no: R-1020 c, from: 1888 Year. |
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A Singular Coincidence
In
the course of conversation with the Rev. W. C. Van Meter, who is now on a visit
to this country, in a brief interval of his mission work in Italy, he informed
us that he had been enabled to print a large number of copies of the Gospel
according to John in Italian for use in the Sunday Schools of Rome. The
children there are following the International Course, the subjects of which
just now are in that gospel. A singular coincidence, which shows the
changes which God has worked, is that the gospel was actually printed in the
room formerly used as the torture-chamber of the Inquisition. The printer who
had undertaken the work was obliged to leave his former business premises, and
looking around for a new location, selected rooms in an ancient edifice that
appeared suitable. There he set up his presses and compositors' cases. A
strange-looking iron ring in the ceiling arrested his attention, and on making
inquiries about it he learned that he was actually in the old Inquisition, and
that the room he occupied had served as a torture-chamber. There within the
walls that have resounded with the cries of men and women suffering for
conscience' sake, he set up and printed the gospel of John.--Dawn of Morning.
W.T. R-1020c : page 8 - 1888r