Calvin might well rejoice in having obtained results so large in so short a time; and his colleagues rejoiced with him. The aged Courault, persecuted in France, had been compelled to take refuge in Basel; and Calvin, knowing that although deprived of sight, ‘he was clear-sighted with the eyes of the mind,’ had called him to Geneva. Courault was happy to find himself a witness in that city of the triumph of the Reformation, which had been so rudely assailed in his native country. Farel, on his part, saw that God was crowning the work that had cost him so much labor. He displayed at all times unwearied zeal and heroic courage; and his continual prayers in behalf of the Reformation were so fervent, that those who heard them felt themselves lifted up to heaven, says Beza. Farel had cast the seed into the ground, and had seen the stalk spring up. Now, to the time of sowing succeeded the time of harvest. The ear had appeared, the grain was formed in the ear, and another laborer, a robust harvestman, had come to cut the wheat and bind the sheaves. But this excited no envy in him. On the contrary, his Christian soul acknowledged with thanksgiving the precious gifts bestowed on Calvin. The superiority of his intellect, the extent of his acquirements, the accuracy of his judgment, and his faculty for organization, filled the old pioneer with admiration and respect. He was delighted to see a constantly increasing auditory thronging into the cathedral to hear Calvin expound the Holy Scriptures. Thenceforth the old man sat almost a disciple at the feet of the young doctor. On all subjects he desired Calvin’s opinion, and he looked on him as the man chosen of God to complete the Reformation. Calvin on his part gave to Farel the honor which was due to him. ‘After you had begun to build up this Church of Geneva, with great labor and danger,’ he said, ‘I came in unexpectedly in the first instance as _conductor_, and afterwards I remained as your successor, to carry on the work which you had well and happily begun.’ This cordial relation between Calvin and Farel, in spite of the difference of their ages, is among the most beautiful instances of the kind in history. Calvin subsequently extolled what he called _their sacred friendship and union_, and said affectionately, ‘You and I are one.’[472] There was between them, says Calvin on another occasion, a good understanding and a friendship which, consecrated by the name of Christ, was profitable to his Church.