. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. at midnight; the king,thinking the massacre had begun afresh, sprang from his bed and sent his guardsinto the streets to stop it; but there was nothing. These noises lasted throughthe first week in September : they bear witness to the superstitions of the time,and to the royal remorse. SIEGE OF ROCHELLE. And yet the Huguenot sect was not destroyed, as the pope and the courtsupposed. Error dies hard, and Truth still harder. There were risings in thesouth and elsewhere ; th
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. at midnight; the king,thinking the massacre had begun afresh, sprang from his bed and sent his guardsinto the streets to stop it; but there was nothing. These noises lasted throughthe first week in September : they bear witness to the superstitions of the time,and to the royal remorse. SIEGE OF ROCHELLE. And yet the Huguenot sect was not destroyed, as the pope and the courtsupposed. Error dies hard, and Truth still harder. There were risings in thesouth and elsewhere ; the survivors of the party soon numbered eighteen thou-sand armed men, and held a hundred towns and castles. Those who had fled toforeign lands acted as political missionaries, and stirred up sympathy and , Nimes, and Rochelle fortified themselves and formed a English nobles offered to send troops to France at their own expense ; butElizabeth, who always grudged help to the distressed away from home, forbadethe expedition. The fourth war was carried on by sheer native courage. Rochelle,. VISIONS OF A GUILTY IX. after the massacre of St. Bartholomew. 401 402 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. with a garrison of a thousand and its citizens, withstood a large army forfour months. It was blockaded by sea and land; the besiegers, led by Anjouand nearly all the Catholic nobles, made twenty-nine assaults, dug seventymines, and fired thirty-five thousand cannon-balls at the town, but all in by theirministers and val-iantly helped by theirwives and daughters,•the burghers shoutedout Clement Marotspsalms and repelledevery theirprisoners wasCosseins, thecaptain of theguard whohad broken inColignys doorand killed theporter; theyput him todeath. TheDuke DAu-male was shotin the tren-ches; Anjou,busy with hisschemes onthe throne ofPoland, ne-glected hisduty. A pes-tilence brokeout among thetroops, whichis said to have carrie
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