Identifier: storyofourchrist00bird (find matches)
Title: The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Bird, Frederic Mayer, 1838-1908 Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
Subjects: Church history
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Peerless Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Not an unfair sample of them, perhaps, was that captainwho in December, 1420, broke into the church of Kerczin during service, mas-sacred part of the congregation, took the chalice full of wine from the altar,drank it to his horses health, and gave him some of the consecrated fluid, sayingthat the horse too had become an Utraquist. SIEGE OF PRAGUE. On the last day of June the emperor reached Prague, where the castle wasstill held by his officers, and relieved the Vissehrad. He tried to storm the city THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 281 walls, but every attack was repulsed. Before lie could occupy the Gallows Hill,which overlooked the town, it was seized and fortified by Zisca. On July 14th,it was assaulted in great force, nearly taken, and saved in a singular way.While the people of Prague gazed in terror on the danger of their friends andimplored help from heaven, a minister suddenly issued from the city gate,bearing the consecrated elements, and followed by fifty women and a crowd of
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A GROUP OF MENDICANT FRIARS. peasants with their flails. The imperial troops, astonished, and thinking this asally in full force, drew back. Ziscas men, encouraged by the spectacle, rushedfrom their entrenchments, driving all before them, and hurled the enemy downthe rocks. Several hundred were slain, and many prisoners taken. The emperor, 282 THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. from a point of vantage, witnessed the failure of his effort, and drew his arni3back to camp. The victors knelt upon the field and sang: joyful processionswent through the streets, giving thanks for a success which seemed achieved bvmiracle. The invaders were enraged at their defeat, and still more at the burning oftheir tents five days later—perhaps an accident, but credited to the Hussites.The name of Bohemian became a reproach, though many of that nation were intheir army. They burned every one who fell into their hands, regardless of hiscreed. In revenge the Taborites took sixteen prisoners from the town-hous

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