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preaching, distributiug Bibles and tracts, teaching Suuday-Bchools and 

 day schools, c;iring for the sick beyond the reach of physicians, clothing 

 the poor, building churches, and in every way blessing the thousands to 

 whom they ministered. More than five hundred were received into the 

 church that year, showing the results of the Soul Winners' faithfulness. 

 This is the obligation assumed by the members of the Soul Winners' 

 Society : 



" By the help of God, and for His glory, I will try to win at least one 

 soul for Christ, my Lord, every year I live, and give what I am able to 

 send the gospel to my perishing countrymen." 



Protestant Pioneer Preachers 



The Calvinist ministers who came to Acadia from Geneva in 1557 were 

 the first Protestant ministers in the Western Hemisphere. Robert was 

 the first Protestant minister to set foot on the continent of North 

 America. The Huguenots were thus in the lead of all others. 



The American Heroine 

 Deborah Sampson, named the " American Heroine," who served as a 

 Revolutionary soldier tor nearly three years, her sex never being sus- 

 pected, was a descendant of Bathsheba LeBroche. She enlisted under 

 the name of Robert Shurtleff, and served under Captain George Webb in 

 the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment. She was wounded at Tarrytown, 

 and fought in the battles of White Plains and Yorktown. She exhibited 

 unusual heroism, was esteemed a gallant as well as faithful soldier, re- 

 ceived an honourable discharge, and was granted a pension by the govern- 

 ment. She was as modest as she was fearless, and was impelled to her 

 course by patriotism. She was born in Plympton, Massachusetts. The 

 story of her career has been written by Mrs. Deborah Sampson Gannett. 



The Huguenot Chapel 



One of the chapels to be erected as a part of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York is to be called the Hugue- 

 not Chapel. This will be the second chapel in a series of seven. Mrs. 

 Edward King, of New York, gave $100,000 for the building of this memo- 

 rial to the Huguenots who have had from the beginning such honourable 

 part in the making of the Metropolis of the New World. 



Many Distinguished Men 

 From a study of the names contained in Appleton's Encyclopedia oj 

 American Biography, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge finds that among the men 

 in America prior to 1789 who were of sufficient distinction to be named 

 In the Encyclopedia, there were 689 Huguenots, they holding fourth 

 place in the Ust. This is sufficient testimony as to the character and 

 ability of these Protestant French. 



President John Adams 

 In his History of Independence Hall (published by James Challon & 



