May 1862 A.D. St. James, Royal Chapel, London: the Rev. Dr. J.H. Merle d’Aubigne preaches at the invitation of Queen Victoria
May 1862 A.D. St. James, Royal Chapel, London: the Rev. Dr. J.H. Merle d’Aubigne preaches at the invitation of Queen Victoria. Martinet Tractarians recoil, grouse, sniffle opine and whine, but the Queen has her way and hears the Reformed Churchman in a premier Anglican Chapel. From Mr. d’Aubigne’s Vol. 1, The Reformation in England . “Introduction” by S. M. Houghton, 1961. He gives a brief biography on the historian. Jean Henry Merle d’Aubigne was born in a canton of Geneva in 1794. His family were Huguenot expatriates from France after the loving and tolerant Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Under divine judgment and with the usual depraved governmental energies of Romanism, 1000s of France’s finest fled. France’s loss and other countries gains. d'Aubigne’s family was one of 1000s. In time, he studied at the University of Geneva and took his Arts degree. But though a descendant of a French Reformed family, the corrosions within and a...