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their endeavours, the light was diffused to a very remarkable degree in Geneva, which, through the ministration of these Socinian, Arian, and Arminian teachers, had fallen from the glory which once belonged to it, and instead of being the centre of illumination to Protestant Europe, had become a synagogue of Satan and a citadel of ignorance and darkness.

In my "Letter to M. Cheneviere, Professor of Theology at Geneva," which I published both in English and French in the year 1824, which he never attempted to answer, you will find other details connected with the foregoing subjects. But before I conclude, I may notice the course I was led to adopt at the close of the academical session at Geneva, in 1817. After the departure of the students, at the termination of their course at that period, I resumed my design of going to Montauban, in the south of France, where the Faculty for the education of French Protestants is established, and which is considered the centre of all the French Protestant churches. Through the kindness of the late M. Bonnard, then Professor of Hebrew, but afterwards Dean, or Principal of the Faculty, I was introduced to such of the French pastors as occasionally visited Montauban, and by his means, and in consequence of the extensive correspondence he maintained with all the pastors in France, I was enabled to obtain much valuable information, as well as general circulation for the books I published there, in every part of the kingdom. From my valued friend, the present President of the Consistory, M. Marzials, to whom I was also under peculiar obligations for the assistance he afforded me among the students and others, I some time ago received a letter, in which he says, "Many of our pastors are now proclaiming the Gospel, who, but for your abode among us, would have been preaching Neology." By another letter from him, recently received, dated July 13, 1839, I am informed that every student, on finishing his studies and leaving Montauban, is furnished with a copy of my "Evidences," which were translated into French, and of the French "Commentary on the Romans," which I prepared and published at that place.

The report of what was going on at Montauban reached Paris, and the Minister of the Interior anxiously inquired of the English Ambassador concerning me, but in the issue I was allowed to continue there undisturbed by the Government.

The late M. Pictet of Geneva, whose name is so well known among the savans of Europe, and who had been appointed by Bonaparte one of the Inspectors of the Protestant Churches,-who has asserted in one of his publications, that "the Methodism," meaning the Christianity,” of England, threatens to conduct the world back to barbarism,"-officially visited Montauban some years after I left it. On that occasion M. Pradel, then Dean of the Faculty, and a man equally opposed to the Gospel as M. Pictet, told him, with tears in his eyes, that "since the appearance at Montauban of that disastrous meteor (meteore desastreux), Mr. Haldane, all had been poisoned with his doctrine." M. Pradel publicly used the same expressions on another occasion, in addressing the students, and thus unintentionally bore witness to the blessing with which the Lord was pleased to accompany the declaration of his Gospel.

I state these things, my dear Sir, because, as I have already intimated, the account which has appeared under the sanction of your name would, if uncontradicted, be henceforth considered as authentic, and because it may advance the objects which both of us have at heart for the good of the Continent, to publish this short record. Placed before the world as Mr. Burgess's narrative now is, it requires to be rectified; and I also trust that a memorial of the Lord's goodness in prospering an attempt to revive the knowledge of his truth in Continental Europe, may stimulate the zeal of others, and redound to the glory of God, whom you serve in the gospel of his Son, and to whom, in whatever capacity we are placed, it is our bounden duty to consecrate every talent with which we are intrusted.

I am, my dear Sir,
Yours, very sincerely,
ROBERT HALDANE.

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