ce over sophistry, calmness over
passion and stubbornness, the church over the sect, and the friend of
reason and order over the demagogues. But it was a victory known only
to the higher and educated classes; the people remained, and now the
fanatics appealed to them, giving out everywhere, that Zwingli had not
been able to withstand them. They held firmly to the letter, that
resort of all intriguers and wranglers. Meanwhile, the Council
resolved, the next day, that all children should be baptised within a
week, that they, who would not permit it, should be banished from the
canton; and that the congregation in Zollikon should restore the
baptismal font. Grebel and Manz were enjoined to keep the peace. There
was to be no more controversy about baptism, but, if desired, other
articles of faith might be discussed. R[oe]ubli, Br[oe]dlein and Ludwig
Haetzer received an order to leave the district within eight days.

But now resistance began with appeals to the Scripture, that we ought
to obey God rather than men. R[oe]ubli, Br[oe]dlein and Haetzer left the
canton; but the first kept up an exciting correspondence with his
followers, from Waldshut, whither he had betaken himself, and
Br[oe]dlein, from Hallan. The latter wrote: "John, a servant of Jesus
Christ, called to preach the Gospel, to the pious Christians, called of
God, in the Christian congregation at Zollikon. Ye know, dear brethren,
how I proclaimed to you the Word of God faithfully, clearly, simply,
and did not deal with it as treacherous landlords, who pour water into
the wine; ye know, how I have had courage, to live among you, to labor
with my own hands and burden no one; ye know also, that for the truth's
sake I have been driven from you by the will of God; finally, ye know,
how faithfully I have warned you not to fall away from grace. This very
day I call heaven and earth to witness that I taught you the truth.
Abide in it, and ye are God's, and He is yours, and ye are blessed.
Fall away from it, and ye are children of wrath, and God is far from
you; ye are wretched orphans, and will flee before the moth. O how
ardent and joyful have I been, since I came from you! Verily, I have
not wept, but sung. O how glad I will be, if God suffers me to return
to you again! When I had gone some distance, Christ came to us; yea,
Christ in the person of his disciple; for a pious brother of Bern,
Christian by name, traveled with us as far as Kloten, and left us the
next day.