Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . CZECH, U. S. N. clergy and for freedom, was brought byGerman intrigue before a council anddeclared a heretic. Never was there amore infamous council nor a wickedersentence. He was burned at the stakeJuly 6, 1415, a day kept by his coun-trymen ever since. From then on, theCzechs aroused to passionate fury forrighteousness and religious freedom, un-der the great leader Ziska, foughtagainst the Western world, until in 1620they were finally conquered. The realChurch
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . CZECH, U. S. N. clergy and for freedom, was brought byGerman intrigue before a council anddeclared a heretic. Never was there amore infamous council nor a wickedersentence. He was burned at the stakeJuly 6, 1415, a day kept by his coun-trymen ever since. From then on, theCzechs aroused to passionate fury forrighteousness and religious freedom, un-der the great leader Ziska, foughtagainst the Western world, until in 1620they were finally conquered. The realChurch of Bohemia was called the Utra-quist Church, that is the Church of bothelements in the Holy Communion. Oneof the Catholic rights they fought forwas the restoration of the dialice to thelaity, of which the Church of Rome haddeprived them. See in the picture ofthe Hussite warrior the chalice em-broidered on his shoulder, and see thechalice on the gravestone. New Czech-Slovakia has now a na-tional Church of her own, establishedJanuary 8, 1920, the old John Hus43. A HUSSITE SOLDIER OF THE XVth CENTURY Note the chalice on his shoulder and on the gravestone
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