CHAPTER III.
The Missionary Church
Missionary barbes, pedlars, and minstrels—History of the protestants of Favale.
WE have now to enter on a wider field; to quit the sequestered valleys of Piedmont, and accompany the Vaudois missionary over a large portion of Southern Europe. It might be imagined that the struggling Church had enough to do to provide for her own spiritual wants; but no, we find her from the earliest period laying
aside a part of her scanty means to minister to the more
urgent necessities of others. We find her sending forth her wisest and most hopeful on missions, although aware that danger and death tracked their steps.
Her pastors went, like the first disciples, two and two, the elder to guide the more youthful; who, after his probationary
