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can they be obscure, since your children

understand them?’” “I had a great desire,” he

adds, “to render a knowledge of the

prophecies popular in our flocks, if possible.”

“There is no study, indeed, which it seems to

me answers the needs of the time better.” “It

is by this that we are to prepare for the

tribulation near at hand, and watch and wait

for Jesus Christ.”

Though one of the most distinguished and

beloved of preachers in the French language,

Gaussen was after a time suspended from the

ministry, his principal offense being that

instead of the church's catechism, a tame and

rationalistic manual, almost destitute of

positive faith, he had used the Bible in giving

instruction to the youth. He afterward

became teacher in a theological school, while

on Sunday he continued his work as