‘_Physician._ So that is what upsets your mind, And you are not upset to find Church benefices bought and sold By hungry thieves in quest of gold? Or babies on their mothers’ knee Appointed to a Bishop’s See? While haughty Churchmen, as they please, The goods of any neighbour seize, And go to war on small pretext-- Whereby all Christian men are vext. _The World._ From Luther’s land these plaints arise; We’re told they are a pack of lies. _Physician._ Whatever the abuse you ban, They call you, now, a Lutheran.’ The flood-gates of poetry were opened afresh by the failure of the Escalade. Even the octogenarian M. de Bèze composed a song on that occasion: ‘Peuple Genevois, Elève ta voix Pour psalmodier De Dieu, l’assistance, Et la délivrance Que vit avant-hier!’ Other poets followed the pastor’s example by the score. For years--for decades even--they mocked in verse at the enemy whom they had put to shame. When, at last, they were silent, the revolutionary movement of the eighteenth century produced its harvest of squibs; and then we come to the Restoration, and the religious revival known as the Réveil, which also produced considerable literary repercussions. CHAPTER XVIII RELIGIOUS REVIVAL ‘Réveil’ is Swiss for Revivalism. The movement was the Genevan analogue of our Wesleyan Methodism, though it did not begin till more than five-and-twenty years after John Wesley’s death. The originator of it was the Scotch evangelist, Robert Haldane. He came to Geneva, made the acquaintance of the theological students, and was surprised and shocked. ‘Had they been trained,’ he writes, ‘in the schools of Socrates or Plato, and enjoyed no other means of instruction, they could scarcely have been more ignorant of the doctrines of the Gospel. To the Bible and its contents their studies had never been directed. After some conversation, they became convinced of their ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the way of salvation, and exceedingly desirous of information.’ The young men fell into a habit of dropping in upon Mr. Haldane, at all hours of the day and night, to talk over the mysteries of revealed religion. He decided to organize his efforts for their evangelization, take them in classes three nights a week, and expound the Epistle to the Romans. His influence over them was the more remarkable because he was, at first, obliged to converse with them by means of an interpreter. And he had remarkable men among his pupils: Adolphe Monod, of Paris; Félix Neff, the Alpine missionary; and Merle d’Aubigné, the historian of the Reformation. A friend, too old to be his pupil, and already of his way of thinking, was Cæsar Malan, the hymnodist. [Illustration: THE HEAD OF LAKE ANNECY HTE. SAVOIE]