BOHEMIAN MARTYRS
In preparing a series of sermons on the precursors of the Reformation I read again the classic, Fox’s Book of Martyrs, edited by Forbush (Zondervan). During the persecutions of the Bohemian protestants following the martyrdom of John Huss, twenty protestants were ordered executed on one day: On the morning of the day appointed for the execution, a cannon was fired as a signal to bring the prisoners from the castle to the principal market place, in which scaffolds were erected, and a body of troops were drawn up to attend the tragic scene. The prisoners left the castle with as much cheerfulness as if they had been going to an agreeable entertainment, instead of a violent death. Lord Schilik was about fifty years of age, and was possessed of great natural and acquired abilities. When he was told he was to be quartered, and his parts scattered in different places, he smiled with great serenity, saying, “The loss of a sepulchre is…
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