p. 127 | PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 17, 1879

PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE.

THE evangelical Protestants of France continue to express in the strongest terms their belief that the French people are riper for the reception of Protestantism than they have been at any time since the earliest period of the Reformation. Since the victory at Versailles over Conservatism, the French peasant puts on more independence. He pays less heed to the warnings of the priests, and welcomes the Protestant colporteur and missionary. The Evangeliste, the organ of the French Wesleyans, says: “Could the flag of evangelical Protestantism be unfurled wherever the spirits of men are set loose from Rome, not knowing whither to betake themselves, large crowds would be seen running to it.” Appeals are made to the various French Protestant societies to organize a comprehensive plan of action.” —Harper's Weekly.