Of the seven teachers at Montauban, five are
outspoken adherents of orthodoxy. The inability of M. Reville to be
elected to a chair in that institution indicates the religious status of
those in authority of it.
Neander said one day to M. de Pressense, "This period in which we live
is indeed a critical one. It is to be a dismal abyss or a rosy morning
light. But, depend upon it, it is going to be whatever we have a mind to
make it." The Evangelical Protestant clergy of France "have a mind" to
do a good and permanent work. We do not apprehend an unfavorable issue
from the present conflict, but that the prayers, proscription, and exile
of eight hundred thousand Huguenots will yet reap their appropriate
harvest, and that the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes will be avenged
by the pure faith and permanent triumphs of Protestantism.
FOOTNOTES:
[117] _Revue Chretienne_, Feb., 1861.
[118] _Religions before Christ_, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1862.
[119] _Le Redempteur_, Paris, 1854.
[120] _Meditations on the Essence of Christianity.
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