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Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin,

b. 2, ch. 16.

During the persecution of Meaux, the

teachers of the reformed faith were deprived

of their license to preach, and they departed

to other fields. Lefevre after a time made his

way to Germany. Farel returned to his native

town in eastern France, to spread the light in

the home of his childhood. Already tidings

had been received of what was going on at

Meaux, and the truth, which he taught with

fearless zeal, found listeners. Soon the

authorities were roused to silence him, and

he was banished from the city. Though he

could no longer labor publicly, he traversed

the plains and villages, teaching in private

dwellings and in secluded meadows, and

finding shelter in the forests and among the

rocky caverns which had been his haunts in