No Good Thing Lost by Alfred H. Welsh

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 28, 1908

No Good Thing Lost

By Alfred H. Welsh

No good thing is lost. Forty-four years after Wycliffe's death, the Council of Constance ordered his bones to be dug up and burned. The vultures of the law took what little they could find, ‘burned it, and cast the ashes into the Swift, a little brook running hard by, and thought they had made away with both his bones and his doctrines. How does it turn out? The historian says: “The brook took them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblems of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over.”—Alfred H. Welsh, A. M.