Psalm--

"Hast Thou cast us off for ever?
Will Thine anger no more cease?
Shall Thy people never, never
Dwell again, O Lord, in peace?
Oh, behold the desolation!
See Thy holy place defiled!
Scattered is Thy congregation,
And Thy sanctuary spoiled.

"Rise, O Lord, in might victorious,
Rise and give Thy people aid;
Come, O come in triumph glorious,
Overwhelm Thy foes dismayed.
Circled with a thousand wonders,
Girt with all Thy power and strength,
Mid ten thousand thousand thunders
Save, redeem Thy own, at length!"

They also sung the 129th Psalm, and then Arnaud, taking his text from some
verses of the latter psalm, spoke to them, and exhorted them to endure
hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. The memories of the place as the
scene of the martyrdom of the pastor Leydet, who was barbarously put to
death near this spot by Papists who overheard him singing psalms, would
tend to deepen their emotion and fill their souls with firmer resolves to
dare and die for faith and fatherland.

Their courage soon found employment in dislodging a body of 200 troops who
were entrenched at the ports of San Guliano. These men contemptuously dared
them to the fight, shouting, "Come on, varlets of the devil, we occupy all
the passes, and there are three thousand of us!" The Vaudois accepted the
challenge, and at a single charge drove them from their trenches and
captured all their stores, a very valuable acquisition to the conquerors.
Moreover they slew thirty-one of the fugitives, and lost but one of their
own number. Following up their successes, they besieged Bobbio, and drove
away those who had dispersed its rightful and former occupants. After this
they hold a solemn conclave for devotional and deliberative purposes. M.
Montoux, Arnaud's colleague in the pastoral office, addressed them, and
then Arnaud himself read the following oath, which was solemnly agreed to,
viz., "God, by His divine grace, having happily reconducted us to the
inheritance of our fathers, there to establish the pure service of our
holy religion, ... we, pastors, captains, and other officers, swear and
promise before the face of the living God, ... neither to separate nor
disunite while God grants us life, even should we have the misfortune to be
reduced to three or four.... And to the intent that union, which is the
soul of our affairs, should remain inviolable among us,