" The cruelties which they suffered in France are beyond anything of the kind on record, and in no age was there ever such a violation of all that is sacred, either with relation to God or man ; and when we consider the exalted virtues of that glorious band of brothers, we are amazed, while we are delighted with their fortitude and courage. Rather than renounce their Christian principles they endured outrages shocking to humanity, persecutions of unheard of enormity, and death in all its horrors. The complaint of Justin Martyr to the Roman Emperor, that the Christians were punished with torture and death upon the bare profession of their being such, might have been made by the French Protestants. To be a Huguenot, was enough to ensure condemnation.

a Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. iii, p, 926. The Rev. Antoino Verren, D.D., in a discourse delivered ou the 2fith June, 1862, at the laying of the corner stone of the Prot. Epis. French eh. IHeu St, Esprit, N. Y, says: l-I have it from a parishioner more than octogenerian (the deceased pious Vaultiere of Reade street, whose loneliness during the first months of my arrival among you I used frequently by the side of his bed to comfort with the words of the Lord), who related to me that he had seen here himself old men the fathers of whom had told them often that they had emigrated to this country after the capture (162S) of La Rochelle, by the Cardinal ministre, and by hundreds, hundreds, hundreds, under his successors, and before that monarch had repealed the Edict of Jfa ntes ; for already our poor brethren had settled churches and pastors at Narraganset and Boston, which is a /net shown by our correspondenc- wi*h them all then preserved to this day, in our archives, and the first minutes of our own old records, are, by several years, of a date anterior to that revocation.