Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

Christendom. It was the resurrection of the cause of
the French Huguenots, and through them that of
Calvin and the Church of Geneva. It was the
revival not less of the cause of the Scots
Covenanters, whose torn and blood-stained flag,
upheld at the latter end of their struggle by only a
few laymen, was soon to be crowned with victory.
William the Silent lives once more in his great
descendant, and in William III fights over again his
great battle, and achieves a success more glorious
and dazzling than any that was destined to cheer
him in his mortal life. Protestantism planting
herself at the center of an empire whose circuit
goes round the globe, and whose scepter is
stretched over men of all kindreds, languages, and
nations on the earth, with letters, science, colonies,
and organized churches round her as her ministers
and propagators, sees in this glorious outcome and
issue the harvest of the toils and blood of the
hundreds of thousands of heroes, confessors, and
martyrs whom she has reared. One sowed, another
reaped, and now in the accession of William III
both rejoice together.
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