The hour had come for them to separate. John of Molines and Daniel of Valence went to Bohemia, and joined the Waldenses of that country; the pastors returned to their churches, the shepherds to their mountains, and the lords to their castles. Farel mounted his white horse, Saunier his black one; they shook hands with the Waldenses who surrounded them, and descending from Angrogne to La Tour, bade adieu to the valleys. [Sidenote: FAREL'S VIEWS ON GENEVA.] Where should they go? What would be the next work undertaken by Farel?... Geneva had long occupied his thoughts, and as he crossed the Alps he had before him in spirit that city with its wants and its inhabitants, especially those who were beginning to 'meditate on Jesus Christ.'[478] Already, before his departure for Italy, Farel had conceived the plan of stopping at Geneva on his return, and with that intent had even received from my lords of Berne some letters of introduction addressed to the leading Huguenots. 'I will go to them now,' he said, 'I will speak to them, even if there is nobody that will hear me.'[479] This idea, which never quitted him, was the beginning of the Reformation of Geneva. [446] Froment, _Gestes de Genève_, p. 2. [447] Leger, _Hist. des Eglises Vaudoises_, p. 3. [448] 'Que Christ es la nostra vita, e verita, e paçs, e justitia, e pastor.' _Confession de Foi des Vaudois._ [449] 'Enayma lo fum vai derant lo fuoc.'—_L'Antichrist._ [450] 'Priva lo poble de l'espiritual e sacramental manjament.'— _L'Antichrist._ [451] 'El eyra, e persec, e acaisonna, roba e mortifica li membre de Christ.'—Ibid. [452] 'Lo Segnor Jesus occi aquest felon.'—Ibid. [453] Letter from Œcolampadius, 13 Oct. 1530. [454] Anno 1170. [455] 'Suis omnibus venditis, officium apostolarum usurpavit.'—Stephanus de Barbone, a dominican monk of Lyons, in 1225. [456] 'Aliqui enim dicunt quod duraverit a tempore Sylvestri, aliqui a tempore apostolorum.'—Reinerius, 1250, _contra Waldenses_, ch. iv. [457] Scultet, ii. p. 294. Ruchat, ii. p. 320. [458] Latin paper of the barbes, 15th question. Ruchat, ii. p. 324. [459] 'Nisi per spiritum sanctum reparemur, nihil vel velimus vel agamus boni.'—_Œcolampadii Confessio_, art. 1. [460] See the histories of Léger, Perrin, Muston, Monastier, &c. [461] Ancillon. [462] Choupard MSS. Léger, 2me partie, p. 7, etc. Monastier, i. pp. 167, 201. Kirchhofer, _Farel's Leben_, p. 153. [463] Letter of 26 July 1532. Choupard MSS.