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During outings with our guests to the Mainau - the Isle of Flowers on Lake Constance we will often deviate into the city of Constance to see the Huss Memorial Stone. John Huss was born in about 1380 in Bohemia and became a pastor in Prague and dean and rector of the university there. Being enlightened to biblical truths through the writings of the early English reformer John Wickliffe, he began to preach and teach in a new and vital way which soon brought the condemnation of the archbishop of Prague and eventually excommunication from the Church of Rome. The emperor sent him a certificate of promised safe-conduct to a Church Council in Constance in order that he might defend his views, but once he had arrived in Constance the pope refused to acknowledge the emperor's promise and John Huss was burnt at the stake as a heretic. A year later his loyalist supported Jerome of Prague was also martyred on the same spot. The stone seen in the picture above commemorates the spot where the two men died for their faith in Jesus and their steadfast belief that obedience to the teaching of the Bible was more important than adherance to religious traditions and what they saw to be a corrupted church system.

We are pleased to have a full house of guests for the rest of August and into the first week of September and there has been 20 of us around the meal table the last few evenings. It's good to have Tim & Deb and family back from holiday.