Protestantism in France From Death of Henry IV to the Revolution - James Aitken Wylie

massacre. Again and again had the soil of France
been drenched in blood. Violence had so far
prevailed that the Synods of the French Church
were now but a name. But the piety and learning of
individual Protestants survived all these disasters;
and, like stars appearing after the clouds of tempest
have passed away, they lent a glory to the remnant
that was spared, and proclaimed to France how
inherently noble was the cause which it was
striving to extinguish, and what a splendor
Protestantism would shed upon the nation, had it
been permitted in peace to put forth its mighty
energies, and to diffuse throughout the length and
breadth of France its many virtues, and ripen its
precious fruits.
Footnotes:
1. Weiss, History of the French Protestant
Refugees, p. 26; Edin., 1854.
2. Weiss, Hist. French Prot. Refugees, p. 34.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 35.
5. Hall's Works, vol. 6., p. 878.
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