John Wycliffe
In the different countries of Europe men were moved by the Spirit of God to search for the truth as for lost treasures. Providentially guided to the Holy Scriptures, they studied the sacred pages with intense interest. They were willing to accept the light at any cost to themselves. Though they did not see all things clearly, they were enabled to perceive many long-buried truths. As Heaven-sent messengers they went forth, breaking the chains of error and superstition, and calling upon those who had been so long enslaved, to arise and assert their liberty.
Except among the Waldenses, the word of God had for ages been locked up in languages known only to the educated; but the time had come for the Scriptures to be translated and given to the people of different lands in their native tongue. The world had passed its midnight. The hours of darkness were wearing away, and in many lands tokens appeared of the coming dawn.
In the fourteenth century in England the “Morning Star of the Reformation” appeared. John Wycliffe was the herald of reform, not for England alone, but for the entire Christian world. The great protest against Rome which he uttered was never to be silenced. That protest opened the struggle which was to result in the liberation of individuals, of churches, and of nations.
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