We have now accomplished our tour, and have seen that there is good reason for the Waldensian Commission of Evangelization to thank God and take courage.
At the Synod held at Torre Pellice in the beginning of September, 1877, the venerable Doctors Robertson, of Edinburgh, and Stewart, of Leghorn, told the deeply moved and attentive audience of their first visit to the Waldensian Synod previous to the year when liberty dawned upon Italy. The minds of the hearers went back with them to the time gone by, comparing the enslaved state in which the Church was kept by a tyrannical Government with the present liberty; and looking upon the members of the Synod who had assembled from all parts of Italy, Sicily included, they could not refrain from exclaiming, “The Lord hath done great things for us!” There were present in that assembly thirty ordained ministers who had come from the mission-field which the Waldensian Church has been enabled through them to enter and to cultivate. The presence of fifteen deputies from foreign Churches shows that strong sympathy is felt by the various Protestant nations in the work of the resuscitated martyr Churches; and looking round on the countries of Europe, we see not one, but many of them, which were supposed to be extinct, putting on their spiritual armour for new conflict and new victories.
One of the deputies at the Synod of 1877 was the Rev. J. N. Worsfold, rector of Haddlesey, in Yorkshire. This reminds us that we have one more visit to make before we close our itinerary. In an early chapter of our book[1] the college of the Barbes was pictured to us as it existed at Pra
