Tales And Sketches of Christian Life in Different Lands And Ages
Tales And Sketches of Christian Life in Different Lands And Ages
Elizabeth Rundle Charles
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All that was combustible had blazed and been consumed; what was not combustible "burned, and was consumed not" — the starlight outliving the fire- works, to glorify God by its quiet shining. From the ruins of the armies of Tabor had arisen the Church of the United Brethren. One winter's day, in the year 1456, two foot- travelers were ascending one of the lower hills of the northern mountain-range of Bohemia. They walked fast, for the air was buoyant and frosty, and they were conversing eagerly ...; their steps keeping pace with their words. Both were clad in the clerical garb; one in the monastic habit, the other in that of a secular priest. They were uncle and nephew ; and there was in them that mixture of resemblance and contrast which BO often causes us to make involuntary com- OP BOHEMIA AND MOEAVIA. 95 parisons between members of the same family. Neither was young, and there was little apparent difterence in their ages. Both were genuine Sola- vonians ; both were tall and dark, with muscular limbs, and the firm tread of mountaineers ; both had straight features and broad, massive fore- heads.
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