Excerpt from The Gospel in Paris: Sermons
To read such sermons as those composing this volume is a great pleasure; to hear them preached a high privilege. The orator cannot he printed, and Eugene Bersier is an orator of the loftiest rank. It was in the Oratory in the Rue de Rivoli, of Paris, that it was my joy to hear the man with whose "winged words" I had already, through the press, become familiar. That church has a history, and I was glad that there I first heard Bersier. It stands near the spot where the St. Bartholomew massacre commenced and Coligny fell. It was built in the seventeenth century by Pierre de Berulle, who had first consecrated himself to the conversion of Protestants, and afterwards endeavoured to extirpate Protestantism, and to destroy the political power of the Huguenots. He had already founded convents of the order of Ste. Therese, and the congregation of the Oratorians - whence the name of the church.
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