From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

in the work of visitation. It was not the mansions of
the rich to which he was led; nor was it men of
rank and title to whom he was introduced; he met
those whose hands were roughened and whose
brows were furrowed by hard labor; for it was now
as at the beginning of Christianity, "not many
mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath
chosen the poor of this world." It is all the better
that it is so, for Churches like States must be based
upon the people. Not far from the sign of the
"Pelican," at which La Forge lived, in the same
Rue St. Denis, is a shoe-maker's shop, which let us
enter. A miserable-looking hunchback greets our
eyes. The dwarfed, deformed, paralysed figure
excites our compassion. His hands and tongue
remain to him; his other limbs are withered, and
their power gone. The name of this poor creature is
Bartholomew Millon. Bartholomew had not always
been the pitiably misshapen object we now behold
him. He was formerly one of the most handsome
men in all Paris, and with the gifts of person he
possessed also those of the mind.[10] But he had
led a youth of boisterous dissipation. No
gratification which his senses craved did he deny
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