the soldiers who fought Austria, were many descendents of Bohemians, who had been driven out of their land. They were "Daniels come to judgment." And it is said a Protestant church sprung up at Sadowa from the tombstone of a Protestant, whose family had inscribed on it some Bible passages.

To-day there is in Bohemia, one of the most Evangelical of the Reformed churches on the continent. Formerly there was some rationalism among its ministry but there is none now. She has adopted the Heidelberg Catechism. She now numbers 87 congregations and 120,000 adherents. In Prague, there are now two Reformed churches, St. Clements, of which Rev. Mr. Soucek is pastor. Over the pulpit of this St. Clement's church is the Hussite emblem of the cup and the book, referring to the use of the Bible and the wine at the Lord's Supper, which were the points claimed by the Hussites. The other church is in the Crown street of the Royal Vineyard, a suburb of Prague. Much of the money raised by the Presbyterian and Reformed Alliance between 1880-90 went into this church, as the pastor of the St. Clement's church was at that time a rationalist; so that there might

be one Evangelical Reformed church in Prague. But since that time the rationalist has died, and all the Reformed ministers in the denomination are now Evangelical.

One of the early pastors of the St. Clement's church was named Kossuth. Under him the church grew so rapidly so that in five years between eight and nine hundred had left the Catholic church. For his activity he was arrested and imprisoned in the Hradschin in 1852, for about a year, and then compelled to go into exile in Germany. If this noble church of the martyrs, which in spirit as Bohemian nobly represents the old Hussite movement, were better supported by the larger, richer Reformed churches, she would be able to do a far greater work. She especially needs assistance financially and educationally. She needs a theological seminary for the training of ministers, her university being far away at Vienna. And for years there has been no Reformed professor of theology at this university.*

Thus there are many sacred places in Prague.

*There is a Free Reformed church in Bohemia founded by the American Board, but it is Congregational, not Presbyterian and Reformed.

The memorials of the Hussites are the Bethlehem Platz and Huss house, the Teyn church and the picture of Huss before the council at Constance in the city hall; also the place in front of the city hall where the martyrs were put to death in 1621, -the east tower of the Charles-bridge, where their heads and hands were nailed. One of the most interesting places is the splendid Bohemian Museum in which there is a magnificent collection of manuscripts and books of Huss, Ziska, Comenius and others. We were quite surprised at the art displayed by the Hussites as we had supposed them a plain country-folk. They evidently were of the best classes of society. The cathedral and palace at the Hradschin where the Winter-king lived, are worth a visit, as is also the Deer park, west of Prague, in which is the castle, shaped like a sixrayed star, from which a fine view can be had over the battle field of White Mountain. A visit to Tabor and Kuttenberg repays the time taken for it.

CHAPTER VII.-ENGLAND, WALES AND IRE

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LAND.

HERE are sacred places in the British Isles as well as on the Continent of Europe. The doctrines of Calvin gained great influence there, conquering large parts of them. Even before the reformation, in the early history of Christianity there, British Christianity was simpler, more spiritual and evangelistic than the Romish type of Christianity, as was shown by the Culdees and Columba at Oban in Scotland and Patrick in Ireland. These British races were liberty-loving by nature and were thus prepared ultimately to rise against the despotism of Rome. Wicklif, the morning star of the reformation, might be called Reformed in his emphasis on the Bible as the rule of faith, which was the great peculiarity of the doctrines of the Reformed churches. If so, then Oxford, where he taught, and Lutterworth, where he was buried, become sacred places.

But it was in the days of the reformation that the doctrines of the Reformed gained power there. Indeed, so great was its power, that the Episcopal or Anglican Church of England received the name,