There was a certain moral grandeur in the complete abandon to God and in the earnestness that was ready to sacrifice all to his will.

And if we judge the tree by its fruits, at its best it brought forth a strong and good race.

The noblest examples are not the theologians, Calvin and Knox, not only drunk with God but drugged with him, much less politicians like Henry of Navarre and William of Orange, but the rank and file of the Huguenots of France, the Puritans of England, "the choice and sifted seed wherewith God sowed the wilderness" of America.
These men bore themselves with I know not what of lofty seriousness, and with a matchless disdain of all mortal peril and all earthly grandeur.

Believing themselves chosen vessels and elect instruments of grace, they could neither {168} be seduced by carnal pleasure nor awed by human might.

Taught that they were kings by the election of God and priests by the imposition of his hands, they despised the puny and vicious monarchs of this earth.