The Great Siege
The second Saturday in August is ‘Derry Day’ - we meet to commemorate an historical event - a siege. Actually, a very important event in our cultural and political history. The siege occurred in 1689, around a year after William of Orange had landed at Torbay, and ‘the glorious revolution’ was effectively ending almost a century of rule by the Stuart dynasty, a period that had brought a great burden of suffering upon those who by conscience would not conform to Roman ritual or rule of the church by state appointed bishops.
The people inside the city were helpless, and their situation hopeless, until a rescue mission was launched, and the ship 'Mountjoy' crashed through the boom placed across the mouth of the River Foyle. Are there any spiritual lessons to be learned? How helpless and hopeless is the plight of the sinner, in deep spiritual hunger? Yet we too have a Rescuer, who has already procured our release...
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
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