The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

POTENT DUTY OF DESCENDANTS. 389
and obliterate "tlie old paths," nor will hechap. iv .
walk in them heedlessly and without inquiry.
And what can be more charming than the hon-
est, eager inquisitiveness of the young for
reasons Avhich governed the faith and life of
his ancestors? And specially delightful is
such inquiry, when parents are able to return
a good answer, and from their hearts will let
flow, as rivers of living waters, those truths
which made the Huguenots a religious people,
until the heart of the offspring becomes saturated
with them. We urge this as the potent
duty of every descendant who has children. It
is God^s way of perpetuating religion. Without
it, religion would die out; with it a holy
seed will be preserved in times of greatest
declension, and to remotest posterity. Children
will ever be what parents make them, and
the world will ever be what the family is.
To nobly live is grand to live.
To leave our deeds beliind,
That they, who shall become our heirs,
Rich heritage may find.
Parents to heirs will e'er convey
The impress of their lives ;
Live as they will, do as they may,
They are their children's dies.
The earthly life is in the blood,
Inherited from man ;
'Tis God of souls, who lifts the soul,
And makes our living grand,
God of our fathers, be the God
Of our succeeding heirs ;
Lift up their souls, keep pure their blood,
And evermore be theirs.