The Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Vol. 5

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Excerpt from The Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Vol. 5: September, 1910The clearest proof of the merits of their work is found in the extraordinary hold it took upon the mind of the French people, not only of the Reformed Church, but even its enemies. It was a bulwark of the Huguenot cause. To use the language with which Father Faber looked back to his Protestant Bible, it became one of the strongholds of what the Romanists called heresy. It lived upon the car like the sound of church bells which the pervert hardly knew how he could forego - a music never to be forgotten. The memory of the dead passed into it, the potent traditions of childhood were stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man were hidden beneath its words.2 More than one Romanist version was made, to break its hold on the public ear, but in vain. The converts to Rome clung to it in spite of their confessors. Mme. De Maintenon wife of Louis XIV, authenticated her Huguenot descent and education by her love of psalm-singing, and by her reluctance to go to Mass. Charlotte-elizabeth, the Ger man wife of the king's brother, delighted a Protestant painter by singing the Huguenot psalms under the shade of the garden trees at Versailles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.