courage in the days of battle, as evidenced by the paraphrase of the 76th Psalm, which was sung at the Battle of Drumclog, when the Covenanters won their memorable victory over Claverhouse forces, June 1, 1679. In Judah’s land God is well known His name’s in Israel great, In Salem is His tabernacle In Sion is his seat. There arrows of the bow he breaks The shield, the bow, the war, More glorious than those hills of prey More excellent art far. P&alm 76; Tune “Martyrs.” CONCLUSION If you want to know the glory of our forefather’s faith, go to Scotland and stand in Greyfriar Church Yard in Edinborough, and see where the great host of Covenanters signed the solemn League and Covenant with blood drawn from their own veins. Go to the Church of Balmaghie, and read the tablet which was placed upon the wall in honor of John MacMillan for his great devotion to the Covenanting cause. Go to County Antrim in Ireland, and see the modest ancestral homes of Hugh and Jane Harvey McMillan, where in spite of their near poverty, they lived in dignity and honor. Go to Chester district, South Carolina and stand in Rocky Creek Cemetery and see the scores of monuments which have been erected to those pioneers who came to America in the early days and lived their lives so nobly; and stand beside the tallest monument of all, which was erected to Hugh McMillan, a Presbyterian elder and leader of the group, who for the sake of his descendants was willing to begin life in the new world as an humble laborer, to serve seven years for his economic freedom, that he might give his descendants the privileges they now enjoy, and who fittingly rests under a monument of Italian marble, with an inscription chiselled upon it, which for real worth might well be envied by any descendant, whatever his accomplishments in life may be. But to get the full picture, so far as our immediate family is concerned, you must follow this family’s pilgrimage to Greene 17
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