Christian Literature for Your Family
One beautiful June morning Pierre Cavier had a rare opportunity. He had expected he’d have to go to the vineyard again to tie up the vines. It was the time of the year for doing that, and he had been helping his father for days already. Dad said that this was just the job for Pierre. With his thin, nimble twelve-year-old fingers, he could hold the vines much better than his father, Jean, whose fingers had become stiff from years of hard work.
It is the summer of 1536 in Geneva. A coach stops in front of the watchmaker’s house, and a nobleman traveling under the name of Charles d’Espeville steps out of the carriage. Just like many of his countrymen, he has fled the persecution in France. His real name is John Calvin. It all begins in Paris when Calvin is a student. There he meets the winemaker Cavier from a nearby village. Later Calvin asks him to protect a portion of his Institutes. He meets the winemaker and his family again in Italy, another dangerous area for Protestants. Cavier and a peddler named Antoine devise a plan for Calvin to escape his enemies.
This book follows the varied and eventful life the well-known preacher and author John Bunyan. The story starts with his expulsion from school. Then he took up the life of a tinker, going from house to house fixing broken pots and pans. He later experienced the rough life of a soldier. He was very poor when he got married. He was then turned by God from being the town’s most notorious profane man into one who prayed, and finally a preacher. It was because of his preaching that he was arrested and kept in prison for years. It was there that he wrote his most well-known book: The Pilgrim’s Progress.