History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . Courtesy of Harper and Brothers. HOLBEINS CARTOONS FURTHERING THE CALVINISM WHICH THEY CONDEMNED. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 69 One finds John Huss of Bohemia going to the stake onhis birthday, July 6, 1415. John Huss followed a long lineof Bohemian Reformers, all deeply indebted to Wyclif. His fellow countryman, Jerome ofPrague, met death by fire in1416. In our day, Moraviaand the Czecho-Slovak Re-public—the first of the Euro-pean nations to pay its debtto the United States — ac-knowledge the
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . Courtesy of Harper and Brothers. HOLBEINS CARTOONS FURTHERING THE CALVINISM WHICH THEY CONDEMNED. PURITAN AND PILGRIM FOUNDATIONS 69 One finds John Huss of Bohemia going to the stake onhis birthday, July 6, 1415. John Huss followed a long lineof Bohemian Reformers, all deeply indebted to Wyclif. His fellow countryman, Jerome ofPrague, met death by fire in1416. In our day, Moraviaand the Czecho-Slovak Re-public—the first of the Euro-pean nations to pay its debtto the United States — ac-knowledge the greatness ofthese men, their moral forcebeing still unspent in Bohemiaand Slovakia. Of mighty import to theworld was the coming ofZwingli of Switzerland,killed in battle in 1531, Lu-ther of Wittenberg, who diedin 1546 and steel-hearted Cal-vin, who finished his strenu-ous life in 1554. These Reformation leaders, together withJohn Knox of Edinburgh, who died in 1572, had absorbedJohn Wyclifs teachings and with virile religious fervorspread the new beliefs. Drastic reformers burst the ban
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