In another part of the continent, I certainly found some persons, professedly heterodox in their opinions, who were nevertheless, active friends of the Bible Society. In one case, I heard that the public meeting of a very large city; and in another, that the welfare of a society, in an immense Protestant district, depended upon the exertions of persons of the class above described. But could I fail, in such cases, to thank God, who had kindly placed the antidote so near to the bane, and had employed an enemy of the truth as the destroyer of his own principles? III. A point, to which I must refer, is that of the _persecution of religious characters_ in Germany, and which persecutions have been represented as at least sanctioned by the friends of the Bible Society. This statement as a general fact, I believe to be utterly incorrect. I took great pains to investigate it on the spot. I wish, for obvious reasons, not to enter far into particulars. But of one individual, whose history has been before the public, and whose sufferings have been introduced to their notice with a sort of tragical effect, I can venture, after a minute inquiry, to affirm, that his troubles arose, not so much from his simple proclamation of the truths of the Gospel, as from his indiscretions, from his resistance to civil as well as ecclesiastical regulations, and his general intemperance of conduct. I must also add, that some of the persons who _protected_ that individual, were at the very time active agents of the Bible Society in their own country. One simple fact will be sufficient to establish these statements. The truths of the Gospel have been and are proclaimed, and are tolerated, and even approved in several of the places from whence this individual was driven. With respect to the Canton de Vaud, a statement to the same effect has been made. It is certain that an angry feeling was excited in the minds of several members of the Committee of the Bible Society of that district, on the occasion which gave rise to the persecutions in that Canton. At the same time, any participation in this persecution is, as to himself, distinctly disavowed by Professor Levade; and certainly those who were the writers or actors in this persecution do not appear in any way in the list of the officers of the Bible Society. Two circumstances connected with the measures which were pursued in this Canton, in opposition to religious meetings, are sufficiently remarkable and interesting to deserve our notice. In the first place, the astonishing progress of religion during this period; and, in the second, the discovery, during the brief continuance of this opposition, of the utter inefficiency of intolerant measures in checking the progress of inquiry after truth.