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you a * e $ 1 uoprpfUgtyp servants ; go frpme withput supper an < i without wages . " - — 'f He did not know y&qt )» ig } # have bieen the consequence of this new dpctrine , fbr it had done a great cfe ^ pf n } jscbief at Lausanne . But the Sardinian government hearing wljat wf # going on , and that ttye yaudois were transgressing the Jaw that no stronger should be allowed to preach in the churches or in private houses , sent dpwn strict orders for enforcing this
regulation . " I asked , what were the sentiments of the VaudQis in general respecting jthe Trinity and tfrq Deity of Christ . He said " the question was not discussed either in the pulpit or in families ; their ministers did not at all encourage ijbem to perplex themselves with these matters , but taught them to worship God and imitate Christ ' s example , and attend to their work . What others thought he could npt say , but for his own part he thought there could be but one God , but that Jesu ? Christ was called God , seton le spiritueL He was conceived foy the Holy Spirit , and that caused him to be called
God , " &c . During ttye first four days I was at La Tour , the Moderator M . Bert , for whom I was the fearer of a letter from one of the Professors at Geneva , was absent at Turin , whither he and Madame B . had accompanied the British Ambassador , Mr . Foster and lacly , on their return to the capital , after a visit of a few days to the Valleys . T ^ e Protestant Ambassadors at Turin , but particularly the British and Prussian , are very attentive to the interests of the Vaudois . They always call the latter " our good friend the Count for
Truchsess . " He frequently remits large ^ ums their various institutions , which , from the poverty of the people , depend almost exclusivel y on foreign assistai } ce . The weather being remarkably fine on these days , I was charmed , even beyond my expectation , with the romantic scenery of these wild retreats , rendered doujjly inter , es # ng to every contemplative mind by their being jtl ^ e spot V wh ^ ch the Lord had chose n to preserve his sanctuary , " to use old Legej ' s . expression , " and which to this intent he had marvellously fortified by the hand of nature . " Let it not be deemed an unseasonable digression by the readers of the Monthly Repository , a work
whose principal design is the development of moral and religious truth , as conveyed tl \ rqugh the medium of I ) iyine Reyelatiqn , if I call off their atten * tion for a few moments to one of the grandest scenes which nature presents , the s . e , ujng sun among the Alps ! Never can I lose the impression of the rapture with wfyich I gazed on thissieht on the hill just above the smiling village of La Tour . I stood in the midst of the ruins of the ancient fortress which gaye this visage its name of the tower 9 and was for centuries the terror ( pf the poor pejsecjuted Walden § es . To the East , in the direction of for it
Piedmont , fpx a ^ thjeeye could ^ tch , , ( and t ^ iere was field enpugh to stretch juntil it ached , ) nothing was to be se , qn but exuberant fertility . The plain surface was uninterrupted by any eminence except a single one , directly opposite , the opening of the y ^ Peyf of Lucerna , seemingly placed there to keep guard over the abodes pf yaipur and pu , r ^ e religion . At five o'clock in the aftemoqn , this mountain , Mwiti Cavour , still retained the yellow beam $ of t ^ e set ^ g s , u ^ i , qf the same lamp of day , indeed , which I had often admired in t ^ e soft English landscape , but now kindled into an intensity of blaze and purity of lustre ? $ nch ftaly alone can display . 1 had often
enjoyed the § e ^ e , nity of evening , but , now a peeper calm descended into the spirit in prpportion as the ; siie , ^ ce was mqre prqfpund , and tfye air ynagitated by the slightest breath pf wind . When tl ^ e storms . which sweep across our island from pne . pcean tp the ojthej Had ceased , , 1 , had pften been deli g hted with \ H clearness pf ^ tbe atn aosptee and | he unimpeded view of < hstant
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/23/
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