Maarten Wierenga Returns Home After Years Apart
In a Holland home during the Napoleonic era, Meindert and Rena Wierenga hold faith as years pass with no word from their son Maarten. A weary French official seeking refuge at their door reveals Maarten alive, disguised, and returning home to reunite with his family, bringing a dawn of renewed joy after long sorrow.
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France
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Glimpses of Days of Peace in the Nether Lands
Chapter VIII describes postwar Netherland society embracing Bible truths and unity. Maarten, returning from war, resumes agriculture, symbolically turning a sword into a ploughshare and a spear into a pruning hook as the nation commits to peaceful labor and moral reform.
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Maarten
Returned to Peaceful Farm Life and Fading Years
A veteran Meindert resumes farming with renewed joy after war and wanderings, cherishing home, church, and family. Maarten longs to fight for Holland but yields to his mother's plea. Waterloo ends Napoleonic threat, Belgium joins Holland, aging parents near death. story to be continued.
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Ella
France
Europe
Holland
Holand
Maarten
Waterloo
St. Helena
Netherlands
Belgium
Meindert
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