SUFFEEING FOE THE FAITH 



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CoDgregatioualists — co-operated heartily with the Ee- 

 formecl Churches. lu literature the French Protestants 

 have houoiu'able rauk, aud France is steadily verging 

 towards the realization of a Protestant Eepublic in which 

 religious liberty shall be secured as thoroughly as in 

 America. 



The separation of Chui'ch and State is already an ac- 

 complished fact, and the most fateful fact for France since 

 ^Yaterloo. Frenchmen are proud to-day to claim as an- 

 cestors those martyrs who helped with their blood in es- 

 tablishing the great principle of religious freedom. 



