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sufficient for any extraordinary expenses. From my books which yet
remain at Geneva, there will be enough to satisfy my landlord till next
winter. As to the future, the Lord will provide.” (Herminjard, l.c.)
ft507 A census of Strassburg, taken Oct. 18, 1563, enumerates one hundred
Frenchmen who were citizens, thirty-five who were not citizens, and
sixteen soldiers (in all 161 men), without including wives, children, and
servants. From this Stricker (p. 6) infers that the foreign population
numbered four hundred souls. Doumergue (l.c. p. 3) counts from five
hundred to six hundred. Specklin (1536-1589), the author of a
chronicle of Strassburg (edited by Rud. Reuss, Strassb. 1890), gives a
much larger number, namely, fifteen hundred; but he is not very
accurate, and must be corrected by the official census.
ft508 “Ecclesiola Gallicana,” as Calvin calls it.
ft509 Afterwards he preached in the Klosterkirche der Reuerinnen, now
called the Magdalenen Kirche.
ft510 Calvin to Farel, in Herminjard, V. 291.
ft511 Kampschulte, I. 324, thus sums up Calvin’s pastoral labors in
Strassburg: Strassburg hatte in Kurzem eine blühende wohlgeordnete
französische Flüchtlingsgemeinde mit Predigt und Bibelstunden, mit
regelmässiger Abendmahlsfeier und Psalmengesang, insbesondere
aber mit einer strenge gehandhabten Disciplin, und nicht ohne
Staunen erzählten die deutschen Pastoren bald einander von den
Einrichtungen und dem merkwürdigen Eifer der neuen
Emigrantenkirche in Strassburg.”
ft512 Stricker, pp. 11, 12, 64; Erichson, p. 65; Doumergue, p. 4; Calvin’s
letter to Bullinger, Sept. 12, 1563 (Opera, X. 151). Under the French
rule the Reformed Church was reorganized in Strassburg.
ft513 Republished by Baum at Strassburg, 1859. Douen, l.c. I. 346.
ft514 In a letter to Gaspard Megander, an influential minister at Bern
(probably from Feb. 20, 1537), Calvin writes: “Libellum tuum
ceremonialem a Mauro [Maurus Musaeus, Morelet de Museau],
rogatu nostro, versum, cum nostro contulimus, a quo nihil penitus nisi
brevitate differt.” Herminjard (vol. IV. 191) adds the following note:
“La liturgie usitée dans l’église genevoise était, selon toutes les
vraisemblances, celle de Farel, publiée àNeuchâtel, le 29 août 1533,
sous le titre suivant: ‘La Manière et Fasson qu’on tient en baillant le
sainct baptesme ... ès lieux que Dieu de sa grâce a visites.’ Nous