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Title: Reminiscences
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Young, Robert Anderson, 1824-1902
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Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Dallas, Tex., Publishing house Methodist Episcopal church, South Barbee & Smith, agents
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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128 REMINISCENCES. WicklifFe is called the morning star of theReformation. A Bohemian prince married a princess ofEngland. She understood the doctrines ofWickliffe, and was friendly to them. Thisencouraged John Hnss and Jerome ofPrague in the work of reformation. Tensof thousands revolted from the doctrines andusages of the Roman Catholic Church. Fi-nally Huss was brought before the Councilof Constance and condemned to be burned.Our main object in spending a day at Praguewas to see the great picture of John Hussstanding before the Council of Constance.It is numbered among the largest and mostcelebrated paintings on earth. It was ex-hibited in all the principal cities of Eu-rope, and then purchased by the Bohe-mians for eighty thousand florins. The fig-ures are all the size of life. The EmperorSigismond is in the chair, and Huss is stand-ing before him in the attitude of an orator.With me this work of art ranks next toRaphaels Transfiguration. Florence, in Italy, is supposed to be the
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STATUE OF MARTIN LUTHER. REMINISCENCES. 129 most cultivated city in the world. What isknown as the revival of learning* in mod-ern times began in Florence, under the pat-ronage and rule of the Medici family. HereSavonarola, the invincible reformer, lived.They show you the monastery to which hebelonged, the little room in which he stud-ied and slept. On the public square, andright in front of the old capitol of the Tus-can Republic, a magnificent marble fountainthrows the water high into the air. Itstands on the spot where Savonarola was ex-ecuted, in 1498. In the audience hall of thebuilding has been erected the unsurpassedstatue of the Italian Protestant. The mar-tyrs of one age are the heroes of all the fol-lowing. Xot a penny to keep geniuses alive,but pounds to build their monuments. Of course we stopped in Wittenburg, Ger-many. A tourist says the village is threefeet deep with Martin Luther. Such hasbeen his influence over the human race thatan enthusiastic admirer calls this Lut

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