est, villanage,
freedom of trade, the property of the monasteries and the right to
choose preachers.

Footnote 2: R[oe]ubli, Stumpf, and Br[oe]dlein, whom we have
mentioned.

Footnote 3: Outside of the Confederacy. In what relation, is not clear
from the connection.

Footnote 4: This included not only the seven articles, (corn, rye,
oats, barley, wheat, wine, hay), but whatever else each district had
paid into the great tithe from time immemorial.

Footnote 5: The subscription of this letter is characteristic: Conrad
Grebel, Andreas Castelberg, Felix Manz, Heinrich Aberly, Johannes
Br[oe]dlin, Hans Oggenfuss, Hans Huiuf, thy countrymen of Hall, and
seven new disciples of Muenzer rather than Luther.

Footnote 6: _Huldreich Zwingli's Werke._ Herausg. von _Schuler_ und
_Schulthess._ Band II. Abthg. 1. S. 230. ff.

Footnote 7: Acts of the Apostles, xix, 3-5.

Footnote 8: Bullinger has a description of the occurrence in his
"Origin of the Anabaptists."

Footnote 9: Called in latter times among the people, The Heretic's
Tower.

CHAPTER FIFTH.

DEFENCE OF THE OLD ORDER. RISE OF THE NEW.

To hold firmly to the existing order of things is not always proof of
evil design, obstinacy or narrowness, as innovators are wont to assert;
it may spring from strength of character, the experience of wisdom,
and, if the existing order be good, even from a conviction of duty. Was
this true of Catholicism? Let us apply the test. In the heart of man
there lies a world full of rest and peace, full of blessed love, full
of confidence in eternal duration and a God of power to uphold and
protect; and this gives us the victory over all the darkness and
plagues of earth. It speaks in living tones in the innocent child. To
children, said Christ, belongs the kingdom of heaven. With growing
years, with the birth of self-consciousness guilt comes to life,
earlier in this one, later in that one, but once to all. It is the
inheritance of earth. The nursery, the school, personal experience, the
history of the world teaches it.

In one alone there was no guilt to be found. How came He? How did he
walk? What need anxiously to inquire, when actions speak? He did not
teach from the pulpit; he wrote nothing; He uttered isolated sentences,
a few parables; He comforted; He healed; He labored only three years,
and three years sufficed to shake the world and to bring peace again to
the world. Who o