" 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, w^e 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 pimished wiih 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. Whoever bore this name were imprisoned arraigned for their lives, and adhering to their profession were condemned by merciless judges to the flames. Some of the name and character were murdered in cold blood, and massacred without any legal forms of justice.

"It is a singular fact, (continues Mr. Disosway, to whom we are indebted for the materials of this sketch.) tliat the Reformation originated in France upon her own soil, and its earliest seeds were germinated in the University of Paris, then a stronghold of Romanized faith. At this timt", the University was the principal seat of European learning and Roman Catholic orthodoxy.

"Among the people of Picardy and Dauphiny, the first principles of the great work appeared before they were manifest in any other country. This is the fact if we regard dates; and therefore the earliest honors of the Reformation belong to France, a circumstance which lias been generally overlooked. Still Luther, in zeal, knowledge and success, was the master spirit of the