Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

who fed their flocks beneath the glaciers of the
Diablerets, hearing that the Church was in danger,
rushed like an avalanche to the rescue. The
herdsmen of the Savoy mountains, crossing the
Rhone, also hastened to do battle in the good old
cause. Tumults broke out at Box, at Ollon, and
other places. Farel saw the tempest gathering, but
remained undismayed. Those who had received the
Gospel from him were prepared to defend him; but
were it not better to prevent the effusion of blood,
to which the matter was fast tending, and go and
preach the Gospel in other parts of this lovely but
benighted land?
This was the course he adopted; but, in retiring,
he had the satisfaction of thinking that he had
planted the standard of the cross at the foot of the
mighty Dent de Morcles, and that he left behind
him men whose eyes had been opened, and who
would never again bow the knee to the idols their
fathers had served,[6] Soon thereafter, Aigle and
Bex, by majorities, gave their voices for the
Reform; but the parishes that lay higher up amid
the mountains declared that they would abide in the
41