Are there christians meeting in secret today

The most notorious was the one in Saint-Jean-Del-Frech in , which led to the massacre of 50 people. Every year a Protestant ceremony is held in this place of memorial on the last Sunday in August. Between 6 and attended these meetings.

Near Crest, a young shepherdess, Isabeau Vincent, started preaching in patois, and then in French, while asleep. She attracted a crowd of followers who collected her prophecies and sent them to the Refuge where they were printed as small volumes which were then distributed all over France.

The young prophetess, and several young girls and boys, started prophesying all over the area. The prophetic gatherings multiplied. Since they were convinced the Holy Spirit would protect them, people did no longer took heed of any danger. The prophetic movement was not seen at large meetings any more, but remained hidden in small hamlets and private homes until it reappeared in in Cevennes and Lower Languedoc.

The dragoons found people at prayer and shot at them like pigeons. On the Arvert peninsula Charente-Maritime , secret meetings were held in the dunes or the forests but persecution was not as violent as in the south. Around Sedan, the Huguenots were decimated by the arrival of cavalry and 17 companies of the Champagne regiment in November Turner Harold W.

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Reformation Study Bible. Reformation Bible College. Stay in Touch. Six times in the Sermon on the Mount, alluding to three distinct exercises, Jesus employs the term secret : Give "in secret…and your Father who sees in secret will reward you" Matt. Pray "in secret…and your Father who sees in secret will reward you" v. Fast "in secret…and your Father who sees in secret will reward you" v. Jonathan Edwards observed the pattern of the hypocrite with respect to prayer: Perhaps they attend it on Sabbath days, and sometimes on other days.