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PEOF. E. HULL, ON GENEVA AND CHAMOUNIX 



in the parable of the wheat and the tares, the principles of good 

 and evil ? Like the waters of the Elione and the Arve they 

 move along side by side, but they refuse to comniiiigle. They 

 are, in fact, constantly at war, eacli striving for the mastery ; 

 but the forces of good and that " make for righteousness " are 

 gaining on those of evil through the spread of Christian light 

 throughout the world, and as we believe wdll ultimately prevail, 

 when the " knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the 

 earth as the waters do the sea." 



Literary coincidence hetiueen the Uru/Hsh and Siviss " Lake 

 Districts." — It is a somewhat curious coincidence that the City 

 and Lake of Geneva lias, like the Lake District of England, 

 been the favourite residence of distinguished men of letters. 

 Naturally, men of high intellectual capacity congregate where 

 the beauties of the landscape, the mountains, the lakes and the 

 fruitful vales tend to tranquillize their minds and inspire them 

 with poetic imagery ; and in following- up this thought the 

 names which suggest themselves at once for the English Lakes 

 are those of Wordsworth, Southey, Euskin, Harriet Martineau 

 and De Quincey, and for those of Geneva, Calvin, Farel, Beza, 

 Voltaire, Eousseau, Necker, Cliar]_)entier, De Sausseur, Agassiz, 

 Gibbon, D'Aubigny and others : names which for good or for 

 evil have left their memory for all time. Calvin's greatest 

 work, Christiana' Rcli(jioiiis Institutio, " which has shed 

 undying lustre on his name," though issued in Basel (1535) is 

 associated with Geneva, and to the Academy founded by Calvin 

 in 1559 learned French, Italian, German and English emigrants 

 flocked and rendered the city illustrious for learning. Amongst 

 the English we find the names of Spencer, Coxe, Chambers, 

 Bishop Hooper and other divines.* 



Geneva as an asylnni for 'persecuted lieformers. — Geneva has 

 had the honour of offering an asylum to the persecuted 

 Eeformers of France and other countries during the troublous 

 period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when in the 

 time of Cromwell, the Duke of Savoy, at the instigation of the 

 Pope, endeavoured to exterminate the A^audois of the High 

 Alps, which called forth the lines of Milton : — 



" Avenge, O Lord, thy martyred saints, 

 Whose l)ones lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold." 

 and caused the Lord Protector to threaten the Duke of Savoy 

 with his vengeance, by "sending his shi])s across the Alps" 



IliKtoi')/ of the Nations^ sv2>ra rif., p. 287. 



