The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

PREFACE.
a foundation at all. But when he knows, as it
were, the cause of which he is an effect,
whence he has come, the trials and hardships of hia
ancestors, which made them what they were, and
whose nature, blood, and principles he himself has
inherited; and when it is shown him that for two
centuries these elements and principles have clung
to the descendants and have operated to make them
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honorable and successful also, then he will think
there is something in them, and will more likely
appreciate, and live by them, and teach his posterity
the same. We urge, therefore, the close and
patient perusal of the Introduction, as the foundation
of due appreciation of the book. If any permanent
good is to come to the descendants and
their posterity from its publication, it will be derived
mostly from grasping the principles, which
brought out the facts stated in the Introduction,
requiring the exercise of such valor, patience, and
faithfulness to religious belief. Indeed, the Intro-
duction and last chapter stand to each other as
cause and effect. Without the principles under-
lying the former, the statements of the latter could
not have been predicated.
The facts of the Introduction have been as con-
cisely stated as it were possible to do, and conserve
interesting and historical reading. They have been
drawn mainly from the "Encyclopedia Britannica,"
the "Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia," the "McClintock
and Strong's Cyclopedia," "Daubigne's
History of The Reformation," "The Huguenots of
the Reformed French Church," by William Henry
Foote, D. D., and "The Huguenot Emigration to
America," by Charles W. Baird, D. D., etc.
As the reader goes through the book, he will