Excerpt from Rome and Geneva: A Letter to the Rev. M.M. Merle D'aubigne and Bungener, Protestant Ministers of Geneva Then came the reformation, so called. This revolution began by throwing ofl' the mild yoke of the prince Bishop, and it was soon followed by his banishment and the confls cation of his property, together with that of the Catholic churches, monasteries, and convents. The clergy were ban ished, after having been grievously persecuted, the convents of the nuns were invaded by ruthless mobs, and these poor women, whose lives had been passed in solitude and prayer, were driven out into the streets, and hunted like wild beasts from the hitherto free city. The altars were overturned, master-pieces Of palnting and statuary were destroyed, and in the midst of all this abomination of desolation the reformed service was performed by new comers, whose faces, like their meagre and jarring creeds, were unfamiliar and saddening to the astounded people. Geneva became the theatre of civil turbulence and endless bloody broils. Its past peace and liberties had given place to present anarchy and open tyranny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.