The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

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freely to enjoy. Their fathers before themc hap. iv .
had a God, whom they loved, worshiped, and
served before they were born. Shall they
break the record and become renegades to the
long line of faith's march? Who of the descendants
can be content to break the glorious
chain, and sever the great procession of religious
life, which for more than two hundred
years has marched down the track of time in
a pious ancestry'? These ancestors have verified
the word, of God; "One generation shall
praise his works to another." How beautiful!
Shall therefore the voice of the living descenants
be silent, their thought idle, and their
heart cold and dead to the God of their
fathers? No. They will be influenced by the
unfeigned faith of their ancestors, and not mar
their good name by unbelief. We urge this as
a special duty on the younger descendants,
that they may not only experience the joy and
freedom, which such a hallowed faith begets,
but may also know what a noble heritage they
have in their ancestry, who suffered exile
before they would bow the knee to Rome. We
do not msh our young kindred to become
bigots, or to hate the Catholic Church. But
we would have them know how much their
ancestors had a right to their love and religious
faith, and we would have them love the
religion of their fathers the best because it is
their own. Protestantism is their mother
church, and they should love it best as they
love their own mother. They should be true to
its religion, as long as it is true to Christ, and
give to it the unwasted strength of their
youth. They should endeavor to add some
new leaves to the unfading chaplet of their ancestor's
religion which has marked the many