. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. at <J od .^900 tb w M&toiwtf TCas m ft toflPftpug atgob ell? pin$5 tbe^u m9) tojwm? FAC-SIMILE OF A PART OF WICIJFS BIBLE. \i ) i. CHAPTER XVIII. TROUBLES IN BOHEMIA. EANTIME matters had been advancing so rapidly in Bohemia that by Jeromes death the relations of that country with the Church were more jVl^f^ -i^W^B than strained. The use of the cup in the com- ^^T^^^Wj^ v^^ munion, reviving an old national custom, had &*A been introduced in Prague while Huss was in Cons
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. at <J od .^900 tb w M&toiwtf TCas m ft toflPftpug atgob ell? pin$5 tbe^u m9) tojwm? FAC-SIMILE OF A PART OF WICIJFS BIBLE. \i ) i. CHAPTER XVIII. TROUBLES IN BOHEMIA. EANTIME matters had been advancing so rapidly in Bohemia that by Jeromes death the relations of that country with the Church were more jVl^f^ -i^W^B than strained. The use of the cup in the com- ^^T^^^Wj^ v^^ munion, reviving an old national custom, had &*A been introduced in Prague while Huss was in Constance; it spread everywhere, and excited anithusiasm to be understood only when we rememberthat zeal for the eucharist was always a striking traitof piety in that region. Communion in both elementsbecame the leading principle, and the cup the watch-word of Bohemian rebellion and reformation. Immediately after the execution of Huss, the counciltried to establish the methods of the Inquisition in Bohe-mia, which hitherto had been happily free from this most doleful experienceof other lands. An inquisitor had been there, as we have seen, but his officehad been nominal, and he had done nothing. So little, indeed, had he beenimbued with the spirit of
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