ail, Festal
Day," and protested his innocence to the bystanders. His last words were
in Bohemian, "God Father, forgive me my sins."

A great stone marks the spot where the two Bohemian saints ascended to
heaven in chariots of fire.

The words of Erasmus might well have been his epitaph--"John Hus,
burned, not convicted." Lechler says: "To inflict defeat by meeting
defeat, that was his lot."

Wiclif and Hus are the constellation "Gemini," or Twins, shining in the
papal night till their dim twinkling is swallowed up in the glorious sun
bursting from Wittenberg in Luther.

[Illustration: THE BRUEHL, PLACE OF BURNING]

The Synod of Pisa tried to reform the Church and failed. The Synod of
Constance tried it and failed. The Synod of Basel and Ferrara tried it
and failed. The Fifth General Lateran Synod from 1512-1517 tried it and
failed. The great Roman Catholic scholar Von Doellinger says: "The last
hope of a reformation of the Church was carried to the grave."

What could not be done by all Europe was done by Luther.

Luther's reformation brought liberty for Church and State, and to him we
owe it that men like Hus can no longer be burned.

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