AND THE REVOLUTION. BY THE REV. W. P. BREED, D.D. PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION 1334 CHESTNUT STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. WESTCOTT & THOMSON, PRESBYTERIANS AND THE REVOLUTION. CHAPTER I. PRESBYTERIANS AND THE CENTENNIAL. IT was to be expected that the approach of the one hundredth anniversary of our nation's birth would awaken a profound interest in the public mind and give rise to measures for a commemorative recognition in some degree befitting the occasion. Of necessity the national thought reverts to those stirring times that so grandly tried the souls of men and issued in the creation of this gigantic republic. Again on our eye flashes the light of those guns that laid the martyrs low on Lexington Green and at |