The following chapters (originally contributed to the pages of a young people's
magazine) assume to being little more than a resume' of what is narrated at greater length and fuller detail in the larger histories. The author's aim has not been to write a history, but rather to give prominence to some of the great crises in Waldensian history: especially those which prove so convincingly how impotent is the opposition and anger of men-even where seemingly all-powerful- against the feeblest witnesses for Christ, when His strong arm is round about them; and further, how impossible it is to quench a light that God has kindled, or stamp out a testimony evidently marked with divine approval.