And what has been the invariable conduct of Protestant nations in this regard?

Is it not true that to-day Protestant nations are in advance of others in both these respects?

It was a giant step in the Reformation that saw England become one of many Protestant nations.

About half a century after the great separation, there were, throughout the North, Protestant governments and Protestant nations.

'Cujus regio ejus religio' was then the accepted public doctrine of Protestant nations.

Can anybody doubt the marvellous progress of Protestant nations in consequence of the translation and circulation of the Scriptures?

It cannot be doubted that, since the sixteenth century, the Protestant nations have made decidedly greater progress than their neighbours.

And in the parable of the Prodigal Son may be read the history of what are known as the Protestant nations.

Amongst almost all Protestant nations young women are far more the mistresses of their own actions than they are in Catholic countries.

A multitude of useful men, among them many superior men, left a frightful void in France, and went to swell the forces of Protestant nations.