. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. fter this strange performance he started forhome, but on the way was arrested at Hirsan in Bavaria, and held till the coun-cil could be heard from. Meantime that body had summoned him three timesas a heretic. On May 24th he was brought back to Constance in chains, andsubjected to an imprisonment more severe than that of Huss. JEROME RECANTS. It is needless to give the details of his last year on earth; the record is lessedifying than that of his teachers constancy under t
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. fter this strange performance he started forhome, but on the way was arrested at Hirsan in Bavaria, and held till the coun-cil could be heard from. Meantime that body had summoned him three timesas a heretic. On May 24th he was brought back to Constance in chains, andsubjected to an imprisonment more severe than that of Huss. JEROME RECANTS. It is needless to give the details of his last year on earth; the record is lessedifying than that of his teachers constancy under trial. At first he defended THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 265 himself with his accustomed brilliancy; but confinement through the summerand the prospect of a death like that of Huss were too much for his courage,and it gave way. On September i ith, he read a long and formal recantationbefore the council, and twelve days later another. It is pitiful to think of thisrecent champion of progress denouncing the doctrine which he had spread so vig-orously, writing home to Bohemia (as he was required to do) that the national. JEROME SPEAKING AT HIS TRIAL. prophet, his master, had been justly burned, and from the pulpit invoking acurse on all who wandered from the faith (according to the pope), including allthe friends of his adult life, and on himself if he should return to the errors ofWiclif and Huss.
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