Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

archives of Prague, in the libraries of Leitmeritz,
Koniggratz, Wittingau, and other places. For a full
revelation we must wait the coming of that day
when, in the emphatic language of Scripture,
"The earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her slain."(Isaiah 26:21.) [1]
In a former book [2] we brought down the
history of the Bohemian Church [3] a century
beyond the stake of Huss. Speaking from the midst
of the flames, as we have already seen, the martyr
said, "A hundred years and there will arise a swan
whose singing you shall not be able to silence."[4]
The century had revolved, and Luther, with a voice
that was rolling from east to west of Christendom,
loud as the thunder but melodious as the music of
heaven, was preaching the doctrine of justification
by faith alone. We resume our history of the
Bohemian Church at the point where we broke it
off.
Though fire and sword had been wasting the
Bohemian confessors during the greater part of the
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