es of their former
villages in the valleys of Perosa and Pragela. The Duke of Wurtemberg
treated these people with every kindness. As regards church matters and
education they carried out their own home arrangements, assisted by funds
from England. In a colony, Schoenberg, near Duerrmenz, Arnaud passed the
remainder of his life. He declined the pressing offer of our King William
III. to take the command of a regiment in the English army. Having led the
Vaudois once back to their native soil, and established them in their
earthly Goshen, his only desire now was to lead the flock entrusted to his
care amid the green pastures of the gospel upward to the heavenly Canaan.

He died on the 8th of September, 1721, having reached the goodly age of
four score years. He was twice married, and left behind him three sons and
two daughters.

Within the humble precincts of a temple built with walls of clay, and a
bell, whose sound was never heard beyond the cherry-trees of the village,
gratitude and respect have assigned a place of honour to the mortal remains
of this truly great man. The ashes of Henri Arnaud lie beneath the
communion table. An engraving suspended below the pulpit gives the features
of the hero of San Germano of Salabertrand and the Balsille.

While on his tombstone is the following Latin inscription:--

"Beneath this Tomb lies

HENRI ARNAUD,

PASTOR AND ALSO MILITARY COMMANDER OF THE
PIEDMONTESE VAUDOIS."

In the centre of the monument--

"Thou seest here the ashes of Arnaud, but his achievements,
labours, and undaunted courage none can depict. The son of
Jesse combats alone thousands of foreigners; alone he terrifies
their camp and leader. He died September 8th, 1721, aged lxxx."

FOOTNOTES:

[E] A modern traveller thus graphically describes the place as he saw it in
1854:--"And now came in view the glorious Balsille, springing from the bed
of the Germanasca, and its successive wooded aiguilles rising like
pinnacles up the steep roof of a Gothic cathedral.... Around it gape
fearful ravines, each with its headlong torrent, separating it from the
grand heights of the d'Albergian on the north, and the mount Guignivert on
the south; whilst it is attached to the summit of the Col du Pis on the
west. The peaks of Balsille are fringed with pines, but the rocks
themselves are so pointed and broken that they resemble tops