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

weary of commending to others that Savior who
had pardoned sins so great and healed diseases so
inveterate as his.
The gibe and the scoff were forgotten; only
words of loving-kindness and instruction now fell
from him. Still chained to his seat he gathered
round him the young, and taught them to read. He
exerted his skill in art to minister to the poor; and
his powers of persuasion he employed day after
day to the reclaiming of those whom his former
example had corrupted, and the edification of such
as he had scoffed at aforetime. He had a fine voice,
and many came from all parts of Paris to hear him
sing Marot's Psalms. "In short," says Crespin, "his
room was a true school of piety, day and night, reechoing
with the glory of the Lord."
Let us visit another of these disciples, so
humble in station, yet so grand in character. Such
men are the foundation-stones of a kingdom's
greatness. We have not far to go. At the entrance of
the same Rue was a large shop in which John du
Bourg carried on, under the sign of the "Black
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