Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

hands in prayer. Then, rising up, he received that
stroke which gave him at once temporal death and
eternal life.
In this procession of kingly and glorious spirits
who travel by the crimson road of the scaffold to
the everlasting gates, there are others whom we
must permit to pass on in silence. One other martyr
only shall we notice; he is the youngest of them all,
and we have seen him before. He is John Kutnauer,
senator of Old Prague, the same whom we saw
praying that there might be given some "token" to
the martyrs, and who, when the bow appeared a
little after sunrise spanning the heavens above
Prague, accepted it as the answer to his prayer.[7]
No one of all that heroic company was more
courageous than Kutnauer. When the Jesuits came
round him, he said, "Depart, gentlemen; why
should you persist in labor so unprofitable to
yourselves, and so troublesome to us?" One of the
Fathers observed, "These men are as hard as
rocks." "We are so, indeed," said the senator, "for
we are joined to that rock which is Christ."
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