Rise and Establishment of Protestantism at Geneva - James Aitken Wylie

table spread with a white cloth, on which were
displayed the bread and wine, that were to become
to these disciples the memorials of Christ's death,
and the token and seal of their interest in its
blessings. Guerin took his seat at the head of the
table, and began the service. At that moment the
sun, rising over the Alps, a his first rays upon the
little company, an outward emblem of the real
though spiritual presence of that Savior of whom it
was foretold –
"His coming like the morn shall be,
Like morning songs his voice."[2]
This seemed to them an auspicious token.[3]
The growing numbers and zeal of the disciples
again drew upon them the anger of the priests, and
Guerin had to withdraw and follow Froment into
exile at Yvonand.[4] Geneva, like a ship laboring
in a tempestuous sea, was casting out one
Protestant laborer after another, but it could not
cast out the Gospel.
Bern next appeared upon the stage, and
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