ADOLPHE

MONOD (1802–1856)  , French Protestant divine, was born on the 21st of January 1802, in Copenhagen, where his father was pastor of the French church . He was educated at Paris and Geneva, and began his life-work in 1825 as founder and pastor of a Protestant church in Naples, whence he removed in 1827 to Lyons . Here his evangelical preaching, and especially a sermon on the duties of communicants (" Qui doit cornmunier "?), led to his deposition by the Catholic Minister of education and religion . Instead of leaving Lyons he began to preach in a hall and then in a chapel . In 1836 he took a professorship in the theological college of Montauban, removing in 1847 to Paris as preacher at the Oratoire . He died on the 6th of April, 1856 . Monod was undoubtedly the foremost Protestant preacher of 19th-century France . He published three volumes of sermons in 1830, another, La Credulite de l'incredule in 1844, and two more in 1855 . Two further volumes appeared after his death . His elder brother Frederic (1794–1863), who was influenced by Robert Haldane, was also a distinguished French pastor, who with Count Gasparin founded the Union of the Evangelical Churches of France; and Frederic's son Theodore (b . 1836) followed in his footsteps .