THE BEGINNING OF PAPAL PERSECUTIONS 23-27 CHAPTER VI. THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE WALDENSES FROM THE RISE OF THE ROMAN INQUISITION TO THAT OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION 28-37 CHAPTER VII. PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN INITIATES THE SECOND GREAT PERSECUTION OF THE VAUDOIS.--THEIR LOYALTY AND THEIR CONDITION DOWN TO A.D. 1655 38-44 CHAPTER VIII. "THE BLOODY PASCHA"--LOYALTY EVEN BEYOND THE POWER OF PERFIDY AND PERSECUTION TO QUENCH.--REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES.--THE CRIMES OF LOUIS XIV. INVOLVES THE VALLEYS IN TROUBLE, EVEN GREATER THAN BEFORE.--TREACHERY OF GABRIEL OF SAVOY.--EXILE 45-51 CHAPTER IX. RORA AND JANAVELLO 52-62 CHAPTER X. THE VALLEYS REGAINED UNDER HENRI ARNAUD 63-89 CHAPTER XI. THE VAUDOIS FROM THEIR RETURN TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND THE RESTORATION OF THE HOUSE OF SAVOY TO THEIR DOMINIONS 90-95 CHAPTER XII. THE VAUDOIS FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE EDICT OF EMANCIPATION 96-103 CHAPTER XIII. THE WALDENSIAN CHURCH, FROM THE GENERAL PEACE TO THE DATE OF VISITS FROM DR. GILLY AND GENERAL BECKWITH 104-113 CHAPTER XIV. WALDENSIAN CHURCH PROGRESS IN ITS OWN VALLEYS, FROM 1827 TO 1848 114-119 CHAPTER XV. THE CHURCH OF THE VALLEYS AS THE EVANGELIST OF ITALY.--ITS HOME CLAIMS AND NEEDS 120-130 THE VAUDOIS OF PIEDMONT. CHAPTER I. Early on the morning of Easter Monday, 1871, in company with a devoted Italian pastor, I left my temporary home in the comfortable "Grand Hotel," in the little town of Pallanza, to gratify a long-felt desire of visiting that part of Europe made sacred by ages of heroic suffering and courageous endurance for faith and fatherland--the valleys of Piedmont. As we steamed up the lake Maggiore the thin mist of early morn cleared off, and by the time we had passed the far-famed Borromean Islands the eye was ravished with the scenes of beauty on every side. Trees and flowers bloomed forth in the lovely vesture of an Italian spring, and the hills, villas, and gardens on the shores of the lake were imaged forth as in a mirror on its own fair bosom.