The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont/Chapter 11

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The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont
by Jane Louisa Willyams

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4713745The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont — Chapter XI. The Exiled ChurchJane Louisa Willyams

CHAPTER XI.

The Exiled Church

Further persecution of the Vaudois, and expulsion from their valleys.

THE treaty of Pinerolo has been compared to the roll of the prophet, sweet to the taste, but bitter in the swallowing; indeed, the whole history of the Vaudois Church is “written within and without with lamentation and woe.” If, in tracing its long train of sufferings, we feel inclined to ask, “Wherefore were they thus eminent in trial?” the question never seems, even in their times of greatest endurance, to have disturbed their faith. Doubtless they knew

“That ’tis not in this world below
God’s chosen sons are blest;
Of the earth, earthy, they shall know
Their share of earth s unrest.”