New Troubles--Louis XIV. and his Confessor--Edict against the Vaudois--Their Defenceless Condition--Their Fight and Victory--They Surrender--The Whole Nation Thrown into Prison--Utter Desolation of the Land--Horrors of the Imprisonment--Their Release--Journey across the Alps--Its Hardships--Arrival of the Exiles at Geneva--Their Hospitable Reception 166 CHAPTER XVI. RETURN TO THE VALLEYS. Longings after their Valleys--Thoughts of Returning--Their Re-assembling--Cross Lake Leman--Begin their March--The “Eight Hundred”--Cross Mont Cénis--Great Victory in the Valley of the Dora--First View of their Mountains--Worship on the Mountaintop--Enter their Valleys--Pass their First Sunday at Prali--Worship 179 CHAPTER XVII. FINAL RE-ESTABLISHMENT IN THE VALLEYS. Cross the Col Julien--Seize Bobbio--Oath of Sibaud--March to Villaro--Guerilla War--Retreat to La Balsiglia--Its Strength--Beauty and Grandeur of San Martino--Encampment on the Balsiglia--Surrounded--Repulse of the Enemy--Depart for the Winter--Return of French and Piedmontese Army in Spring--The Balsiglia Stormed--Enemy Driven Back--Final Assault with Cannon--Wonderful Deliverance of the Vaudois-- Overtures of Peace 189 CHAPTER XVIII. CONDITION OF THE WALDENSES FROM 1690. Annoyances--Burdens--Foreign Contributions--French Revolution-- Spiritual Revivals--Felix Neff--Dr. Gilly--General Beckwith--Oppressed Condition previous to 1840--Edict of Carlo Alberto--Freedom of Conscience--The Vaudois Church, the Door by which Religious Liberty Entered Italy--Their Lamp Kindled at Rome 203 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Map of the Waldensian Valleys _Frontispiece_ Monte Castelluzzo and the Waldensian Temple 8 Waldensian Missionaries in Guise of Pedlars 17 View in the Valley of Roumeyer, Dauphiné 25 View of La Torre 39 View in Turin 53 The Village of Balsiglia, San Martino 81 The Vaudois taking their Oath 89 View in the Village of Angrogna 97 Parting of Paschale from his Betrothed 111 Group of Roman Peasants 121 Interior of St. John Lateran, Rome 129