John Calvin powerfully influenced all the countries that received the Reformed faith. Switzerland is the center of Europe geographically. From her Alps radiate in all directions, north, south, east and west, the rivers of Europe beautifying and fertilizing that continent. So from Switzerland the Reformed doctrines of Calvin, like life-giving waters spread in all directions over Europe. They were carried east to Hungary, Bohemia and Poland; south, though but for a brief season, to Italy, west to France and north to Germany and Holland, even leaping the seas to England and Scotland.