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potter. He, too, had enjoyed the smiles of
royalty, and in some sort joined in the pomp
of courts; but no confidence did he place in
them. And well for him that he did not;
for, at the age of ninety, we see him in the
prison of the Bastille, urged to recant his
Protestant faith, to give up all that his soul
held dear; and in his reply we observe a
true heroic spirit, as, pointing to his white
locks, he said, ‘“‘ What! forsake the God who
has kept me all these years! Never! My
hair is white in His service. . He will never
forsake me even unto death.” Even so let
us “Fight the good fight of faith, and lay
hold upon eternal life.”