THE SPRING OF 1533.

(History of the Reformation. – Time of Calvin. Vol. in., p. 360.)

"When the day arrived, many persons went out of the city and quietly directed their steps toward D'Adda's garden, situated in a place called Pre L' Eveque, because the bishop had a house there. A table had been prepared in a room or in the open air. The believers, as they arrived, took their seats in silence on the rude benches, not without fear that the priests would get information of the furtive meeting. Guerin sat down in front of the table. Just at the moment (we are told)when the ceremony was to begin, the sun rose and illuminated with his first rays a scene more imposing in its simplicity than the mountains capped with everlasting snow, above which the star of day was beginning his course. The pious Guerin stood up, and after a prayer distributed the bread and wine, and all together praised the Lord. The communicants quitted D'Adda's garden full of gratitude toward God."

Geneva was soon to be a center of light; but first a storm of persecution, to close the long night of the tyranny of Rome, was to baptize the little flock.