If it be thought that my ministry is necessary to calm the ruffled spirits, I shall comply with pleasure.

Above all, if I might assure the Protestants of that district that they shall not be vexed in their conscience, I would pledge myself to bind over the greater number to stop those who would make a disturbance, supposing that there should be any." At a word from Paul Rabaut calmness returned to the most ruffled spirits; sometimes his audience was composed of ten or twelve thousand of the faithful; his voice was so resonant and so distinct, that in the open air it would reach the most remote.

He prayed with a fervor and an unction which penetrated all hearts, and disposed them to hear, with fruits following, the word of God.

Simple, grave, penetrating rather than eloquent, his preaching, like his life, bears the impress of his character.

As moderate as fervent, as judicious as heroic in spirit, Paul Rabaut preached in the desert, at the peril of his life, sermons which he had composed in a cavern.