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dear one whom I loved better than myself, and she will- 

 ingly gave up relations, friends, and wealth to be the 

 sharer of my poverty in a strange land. I here testify that 

 we have fully experienced the truth of the promise of our 

 blessed Saviour, to give a hundredfold more, even in this 

 present life, to those who leave all and follow Him. 

 Certain it is that a man's life consisteth not in the abun- 

 dance of the things that he possesseth, but in the enjoy- 

 ment he has of them and it is in this sense that I would 

 be understood, when I say that we have received the hun- 

 dredfold promised in the Gospel ; for we have had in- 

 finitely more joy and satisfaction in having abandoned 

 our property for the glory of God, than they can have 

 had who took possession of it." 



Romantic 

 Story 



New Start in 

 Ireland 



IV 



Few stories are more interesting in detail than that of 

 this French family, as they sought to make a living in 

 England, where ready hospitality was afforded. AMien, 

 however, through his superior commercial ability, he be- 

 came a manufactui'er of worsteds, jealousy was aroused 

 that led him to give up business and leave Taunton and 

 England. He also discovered that while, if he would 

 join the Church of England he could secure ready pre- 

 ferment, as a Presbyterian he had no hope of favour. 

 He felt that the Episcopalians were not much different in 

 spirit in England from the Roman Catholics in France, 

 though the persecution was not of the same outrageous 

 character. And as he held to the simplicity of the Re- 

 formed worship in which he had been trained from boy- 

 hood, he preferred exile again to further persecution of 

 any sort. He gave up once more his means of livelihood 

 and went to Ireland, where he expected to become pastor of 

 a church of French refugees. He had now six children, 

 five sons and one daughter. In 1694 he became pastor in 

 Cork, and started anotlier manufactory, making broad- 

 cloth. Here he was happy and prosperous, and the church 



