Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

courageous Froment, and dispatched him to a city
where he himself had almost been torn in
pieces.[10] While Froment was on his way another
visitor unexpectedly appeared to the Genevans. A
comet blazed forth in their sky. What did it
portend? War, said some; the rising of a Divine
light, said others.[11]
Froment's appearance was so mean that even
the Huguenots, as the friends of liberty and
progress in Geneva were styled, turned their backs
upon him. What was he to do? Froment recalled
Farel's example at Aigle, and resolved to turn
schoolmaster. He hired a room at the Croix d'Or,
near the Molard, and speedily his fame as a teacher
of youth filled Geneva. The lessons Froment taught
the children in the school, the children taught the
parents when they went home. Gradually, and in a
very short while, the class grew into a congregation
of adults, the school-room into a church, and the
teacher into an evangelist. Reading out a chapter he
would explain it with simplicity and
impressiveness. Thus did he scatter the seed upon
hearts; souls were converted; and the once despised
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