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Contents.
| CHAPTER III. | |
| THE MISSIONARY CHURCH. | |
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| Dissemination of the gospel by the Barbes—Number of converts—Missionary pedlars—American ballad—Pierre and Henri de Bruys—Their preaching and imprisonment—Martyrdom of Pierre—Death of Henri—Vaudois Troubadours—Stefano Cereghino’s visit to Torre Pellice—Some account of the Cereghini family | 52 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| THE COLONISING CHURCH. | |
| Albigensian crusade Refugees in the valleys—Obligation to emigrate—Young emigrants at Turin—Offer of settlements in Calabria—Preparations—Farewells—Arrival—Progress of the colony—Industry and good manners of the colonists—Great numbers of the Reformed Church—Report of the Reformation—Send for a pastor—Louis Pascale—His ministry—Letters—Imprisonment and martyrdom—Cruelties and fraud—Final destruction of the Calabrian and other Italian colonies | 70 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| THE COLONISING CHURCH—continued. | |
| Colonies of Provence Froissard’s Vaudois de Provence—Origin uncertain—Colony founded in 1495—Beneficial change in the manners of the natives—Industry and prosperity of the colonists—Persecutions under Francis i.—Advocates in Parliament and elsewhere in their favour—Edict of Mérindol—Lord of Alnec—Case of the rats—Fresh edict—Reluctance of the landlords to prosecute Children of Mérindol—Persecutions of Oppède—Fresh edict—Assembly in the desert —Cruelties—Annihilation of the colonies—Remorse and death of Francis—Trial and acquittal of Oppède—His dreadful death | 87 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| THE SUFFERING CHURCH. | |
| Saturus of Carthage baptized in his blood—The Vaudois Church baptized in her blood—Thread of the history resumed—Abundance of |
