ABSTRACT
The story of the religious war which ensued ought to be written in a popular form, and read in all countries. Comenius comforted himself by thinking that, in consequence of the events which he had lived to witness, the gospel would pass away from Christendom to other nations, ‘that so, as it was long ago, our stumbling might be the enriching of the world, and our diminishing the riches of the Gentiles. The kinsmen of the Moravian emigrants were questioned by their lords the Jesuits of Olmutz concerning the flight of their relations, and having undergone some imprisonment on that account, and being threatened with the inquisition because, after their release, they had requested leave to emigrate also, they thought it best to abandon their possessions, and fly to the same place of refuge.
