Excerpt from A History of the Papacy From the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Vol. 2 of 6

Hus summed up in his own person all the political and position religious aspirations of the Tchecks, and gave them hs' clear, forcible expression in his sermons. Sprung from the pe0p1e, he maintained that Bohemia ought to be for the Bohemians, as Germany was for the Germans, and France for the French. Of pure and austere life, his countenance bore the traces of constant self-denial, and his loftiness of purpose lent force to his words. From the time that he undertook the Chapel of Bethlehem he devoted him self to the work of popular preaching, and his penetrating intelligence, his clearness of expression, his splendid elo quence, made his sermons produce a more lasting impression than the more impassioned harangues of Conrad or the more mystical and imaginative discourses of Milicz. He exactly expressed the thoughts that were surging in the minds of the pe0p1e, and gave them definiteness and form. It was clear that Hus was not merely a popular preacher, he threatened to become the founder of a new school of religious thought.

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