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preaching at Manelli , he is obliged to proceed immediately to Macelli , four miles of craggy and often dangerous mountain rosfd , ehoaked up , with deep [ snow nine months in the year . , In order to reacjt Praoaole , which is ^ on-the side of a glen forming part of the Valley of La Peyrousa , we ^ had to . mount
up into the snow . From the 2 d to the 6 th of November we had bad constant rain at La Tour , but it had fallen in snow on all the high * grounds , and I was told the winter might be considered as set in , aUhpughuhe , ten days which succeed the 7 th or 10 th of November are almost uniformly so fine in -the Valleys , that it is called ( partly by way of humour ) the summer of Saint Martin .
On our way to Pramole I informed M . Peyran that I was an Unitarian Christian , i . e . that I believed in the strict personal Unity of the Deity , and that Jesus Christ was the Messiah , highly excelling in office , powers , and honourable distinction , all the former messengers of God , but in nature resembling them . The doctrine did not appear at all new to him . The Vaudois , he said , had only one object of worship , and did not address any prayers to Christ . He said , " the Liturgy of Neuchatel was used at Macelli , that of Basle at Pralli , that of Lausanne , " I think , " at Pomaretto . "
"I have heard the Geneva Liturgy read , " I remarked , " and heard no prayers addressed to Christ ; but are there none in the other Liturgies you have mentioned ? " " None" he replied , " m any of tlte Litwrqies uwd in the Valleys . The diversity of Liturgies , " he added , " arose , oot from any diversity in religious opinions in the pastors or people ; but / h * Jfae r « year
1630 , when the plague had swept away nearly all the j nativerVaudois . ministers , they were obliged to have recourse to the Swiss U * iiyejrsities-r to supply the vacant cures . Each pastor brought with him the r ££ pecth % i&tuxgy of his own church , and the book becoming the property off the- ;| jaris ^ i the use of it was continued from that time to the present *"; < J smry- x ^ a ( to
Arrived at Pramole , which we reached with some ! difficulty ^ Qwing : tfee depth of the snow , we had a cordial welcome ftonv £ he -wtonHhearted pastor , who told me nothing occasioned therh greater ptelastere irj the Valleys than the visit of a stranger from England . During my » * tay > I was lodged at the house of a Catholic cure , who is a verj , Worthy and liberal man , and lives on terms of intimate friendship wJtb ' M . ^ Viii * ron , — -I believe the only instance of the kind in the Valleys ^ nil > farroat
acquaintance being the ne plus ultra of social intercourse befcwteefl the opposing parties in other parishes . Before I went away ^> the good old cure told me , that as there was no inn at Pramole he was always glad to see any stranger at his house . He added , that we had the * same-Mastery and 9 g ^ t to take every opportunity of shewing kindness to one another , that Catholic and Protestant were both Christians , but they were not Christians who did not fulfil the law of charity . In conversation witfoilf *
Ftngon , he remarked , that the denomination to which I belonged approached trie nearest to the Vaudois of any English sect . He informed me , that on the ^ turqay evening in particular , the Vaudois always read the Scriptures tqgjejttej and that many stables were then full of readersarid eager listeners , whp . ^ ving no apartments sufficiently large , got tpgether in any place that ^ inr ?? I ?^ them . The next morning , hearing som e voices * he said *
f s ^ jajftJf $ ey ^ re reading the Scriptures in the sun / " ** May it not he sp ^ nie Q $ * ejr lipok ? " said , I . " No , no" was his reply ; "lesnotres ne lisent rtynj d ' ^ re ^ pur people read nothing M , but the Scriptures * " ' While I was present t ^ epost ^ h ^ qygnt ^ letterjfor . Vincpp . i Pnvreadiag it > he clasped his hands and looking upwards , exclaimed , " Thank Heaven ! our schools
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720 The WaUemes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/8/
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