The Waldensian Church in the valleys of Piedmont/Chapter 8
CHAPTER VIII.
The Martyr Church.
Notices of individual martyrs in the Vaudois Church.
THE communion of saints in the peaceful vale of Champforans, and its bright results, have furnished a delightful contrast to the history of cruelty and oppression which preceded, and to which we must too soon return. But, renovated by the Heaven-accorded nourish ment, the men of the valleys, like the prophet of old, were called on to go forth to meet the enemies of their faith.
Like Elijah, too, they went forth alone, for the friends who had so generously hastened to their succour were called to another battle-field; and their own colonists left the Synod of Champforans to enter on those fiery trials with which, in our section on the Colonizing Church, our readers have already been made acquainted.
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