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 other churches; their books were taken and burned; their children were seized and placed in convents for their education; the ministrations of the clergy were refused to the dying; the most noted members were beheaded, the rest exiled; and on their estates were settled people that other countries had expelled as refuse.

“The Brethren were scattered over strange countries, and paid for their hospitality by sowing the golden seeds of learning, which, when fully matured, other nations claimed as their own.

“The few that remained in Bohemia resembled a flock without a shepherd. They pretended to have given up their faith, that they might remain in their mother-country, for they could not but hope that better times would come; that they should live to see the day of liberty and general rejoicing, the day when publicly and honorably they could acknowledge their religion, the day when Bohemia would resume her place among the nations of the world.”