JOHN KNOX. 809

Perhaps the living study of such men as these pages
have feebly endeavored to sketch, may be helpful in this
direction, — men whose example of Christian energy, and
patriotism, and piety, is so much greater than their mere
dogmatisms. The world may outlive the latter, — nay, in
so far as they were merely personal or intellectual, it has
already outlived them ; but the former are the needful salt
of its ever-freshening life. We have entered into the
labors of these men, and fruits have sprung from them in
some respects of a richer and more enduring strength than
they themselves dreamed of. Ours is the inheritance,
theirs was the labor. While we rejoice in our higher heri-
tage, let us not forget those who first broke the bonds of
spiritual tyranny. Let the march of thought go on : in vain
shall we try to check it. But, while we move forward, let
us revere the past ; and as we sweep within the gates of a
New era, let us look back with admiration and, so far as
we can, with love, if not with regret, to the great figures
that stand at the illuminated portals of the Old.
THE END.
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