The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

388 THE HONORABLE POSTERITY.
Ch IV. ap. generations adown the track of time, that
"The Lord shall count, when he writeth up
the people, that this man was born there":
"He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more
From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score."
And they should also prepare their offspring
for their legacy. The heir of a nobleman must
be educated so as to be fitted for his position.
The heir of a throne needs special training in
order that he may enter upon the duties as
well as the privileges of royalty. It would be
useless to bequeath a library to a man who had
no interest in literature, or to leave an art
collection to a man of boorish tastes. The heir
must be suited to the inheritance. We hear
much of the acquisition of an honorable name
and blessed religion, and some seem to act as
though all they had to do is to talk about it.
But what of the minors who are yet to inherit
it? If they are not prepared to heir it, will
they not likely mar it? And is it not true,
that a pound of posterity is worth a ton of
ancestry? The potent duty then of every
descendant is not to vauitt his inheritance, but
to prepare his offspring to hofwr it, by a life
of moral worth and religious faith, that, as one
generation passeth away and another cometh
there may be no break in that line of life which
has made Huguenot descent honorable and
pious. The home of every lineal descendant
should be a center, in which the conserving
forces of truth and godliness are themselves
conserved. A child's religious faith is, in a
high and holy sense, to be chosen for him by
anticipation, by those who were in Christ
before him. Naturally, a child's life is an inquiring
life. He will neither wildly tear up