Death of John Huss

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 22, 1874

Death of John Huss.

WHEN John Huss, the Bohemian martyr, was brought out to be burnt, they put on his head a triple crown of paper with painted devils on it. On seeing it, he said, “My Lord Jesus Christ, for my sake, wore a crown of thorns; why should not I then, for his sake, wear this light crown, be it ever so ignominious? Truly, I will do it, and that willingly.” When it was set upon his head, the bishop said, “Now, we commend thy soul to the devil.” “But I” said Huss, lifting up his eyes to heaven, “do commit my spirit into thy hands, O Lord Jesus Christ, to thee I commend my spirit, which thou hast redeemed.” When the fagots were piled up to his very neck, the Duke of Bavaria was officious enough to desire him to abjure. “No,” said Huss, “I never preached any doctrine of an evil tendency; and what I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.”