The tumult was appeased, but great agitation still reigned in men's minds. Some saw that the storm was over, others that it might easily break out again. As it was St. Sylvester's eve, there were numerous meetings throughout the city, catholics and huguenots being equally excited, and both waiting anxiously for the morrow.[603] [587] Council Registers, 13 and 26 Dec.; Gautier MS. [588] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 18. [589] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 18. [590] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 17. [591] Froment, _Gestes_, pp. 16-18; Roset, _Chron._ liv. x. ch. ii. [592] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 17. [593] Calvin, 1 Cor. xiv. 34. [594] 'Moderatas ad populum conciones habebat.'—Spanheim, _Geneva restit._ p. 48. [595] MS. erroneously ascribed to Bouivard in Berne library, _Hist. Helv._ V. 12. [596] He signed his name _Mohennos_, which was pronounced _Moine_—the spelling of the public registers. [597] La Sœur J. de Jussie, _Le Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 49. [598] La Sœur J. de Jussie, _Le Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 49. [599] Council Registers, _ad diem_. [600] 'Ab invasione per eos cœpta.'—Council Registers of 31 Dec. 1532. [601] Roset, _Chron._ liv. ii. ch. iv. [602] Berne MS. ascribed to Bonivard. [603] Council Registers. Roset, _Chron._ liv. ii. ch. iv. CHAPTER XII. THE SERMON AT THE MOLARD. (NEW YEAR'S DAY, 1533.) For nearly twenty years liberty had been clearing the ground on which the Gospel was to raise its temple. For nearly eight years a few pious voices had spoken of the doctrine of salvation in private conversations and meetings; but the Reformation had not yet been preached in the face of the people. The hour that was to make it a public and notorious thing was about to strike; the world was about to witness the birth of the principles of that moral power which for two centuries, whatever may have been the meanness of its origin, has influenced the destinies of christendom; which, fanning the flame, that is to say, inspiring the friends of the Reformation with heavenly courage, has waged heroic battles against the Jesuits and the inquisition, and preserved the Gospel and liberty from dangerous assaults. Geneva was about to hear the voice of a protestant. [Sidenote: A NEW YEAR.]