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truth, a few in this city and a few in that, the

object, like themselves, of persecution; and

that amid the mountains of the Alps was an

ancient church, resting on the foundations of

Scripture, and protesting against the

idolatrous corruptions of Rome.”—Wylie, b.

3, ch. 19. This intelligence was received with

great joy, and a correspondence was opened

with the Waldensian Christians.

Steadfast to the gospel, the Bohemians

waited through the night of their persecution,

in the darkest hour still turning their eyes

toward the horizon like men who watch for

the morning. “Their lot was cast in evil days,

but ... they remembered the words first

uttered by Huss, and repeated by Jerome,

that a century must revolve before the day

should break. These were to the Taborites

[Hussites] what the words of Joseph were to