Excerpt from The Old Cevenol

I am glad that the editor of the Christian Standard proposes to publish such literature as will acquaint Christians in America with the noble struggles of French Christians against the Papacy. There are two periods especially that will form instructive and timely reading. The period of the Albigensian persecution, and the period during the validity of the Edict of Nantes, and for a hundred years subsequent to its revocation.

The story of "The Old Cevenol" is one of the most popular works in the Sunday-school libraries of the Protestant churches of France. It was written by Rabaut Saint-Etienne, a famous and eloquent Protestant preacher, and the son of a preacher - Paul Rabaut - whose faithful ministry to "The Church of the Desert, " as a colleague of that apostolic man, Antoine Court, marks him as one of the most valiant of the heroic defenders of the faith in those tragic days. The first edition of the book was published about ten years before the great French Revolution, and consequently during a period when the infamous persecuting laws stained the statute-book of France. "The Old Cevenol" is a story. Ambroise Borely is a fictitious hero, but the story is a faithful description of the experiences endured by Christians in France under the "Revocation." I believe the book has been translated into English. I have not seen the English edition.

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