“Then to the Dogs!”

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“The Lord shall fight for you” (Ex. 14:14).
The Turks, having tortured and slain the parents of a little Armenian girl before her eyes, turned to the child and said, “Will you renounce your faith in Jesus, and live?” She replied, “I will not.” “Then to the dogs!” she was thrown into a kennel of savage and famished dogs and left there. The next morning they came and looked in, to see the little girl on her knees praying, and beside her the largest and most savage of all the dogs, snapping at every dog that ventured near, thus protecting the child. The men ran away terrified, crying out, “There is a god here; there is a god here.”

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