MANY years ago in a Paris hospital there lay a young Frenchman who had been wounded in the siege of Saint Quentin. One day he saw a leaflet on the coverlet. He read it, and its message showed him the way of salvation, and he was truly converted.
That young man became Admiral Coligny, the leader of the Reformation in France. His monument may be seen before the Church of the Consistory in Paris.
But the tract had not finished its work. It was read by Coligny’s nurse, a sister of mercy, who penitently placed it in the hands of the Lady Abbess, and she, too, was converted. She then fled from France to the Palatinate, where she became the wife of a young Hollander. Her influence on that man reacted on the whole Continent of Europe, for he was William of Orange, who became the champion of liberty and Protestantism in the Netherlands. Ex.