ZISKA AND THE WAR AGAINST ANTICHRIST
Huss had been burned; his ashes, committed to the Rhine, had been borne away to their dark sepulcher in the ocean; but his stake had sent a thrill of indignation and horror through Bohemia. His death moved the hearts of his countrymen more powerfully than even his living voice had been able to do. The vindicator of his nation’s wrongs – the reformer of his nation’s religion – in short, the representative man of Bohemia, had been cruelly, treacherously...