christian. Christianity does
not teach us to fear our senses, but to watch over them, use them and
honor them; for "the body is the temple of the Holy Ghost."
Christianity admits no death, not even that of the body--no
impersonality. Only a rude, broken covering of earth remains behind.
"Destroy this temple," said Christ, "and in three days I will build it
up again." Hence let us take care not to lay unnatural restraint upon
our bodies, lest at the same time we destroy the spirit.

But the Papacy, which strove to produce in the pastor a complete
mortification and in the flock an undue excitement of the senses,
engendered in the former severity and pride, in the latter laxity or
stubbornness, and in this way created an unnatural separation between
the priests and the people, which can not exist along with brotherly
communion, as taught by the Gospel--and thus, because inwardly untrue
and at war with nature, it hastened toward destruction and was already
on the verge of it in the sixteenth century.[4] Why then did it only
partially succumb? Why did it afterwards again rise to greater power?
Every one-sided movement is struggled against in the most active and
even passionate manner by that which it opposes. Its only argument lay,
therefore, in the faults of its assailants, of which it cunningly knew
how to take advantage. We will now see how these faults began gradually
to develope. The facts will speak for themselves.

On the watch, to spy out every weak point, the defenders of the old
order followed the firm course of the courageous Reformer. Nothing
could be discovered before the year 1523. But now came the war on
images, then the burning of Ittingen, then the insurrection of the
peasantry, then the passing of armed Zurichers to and from Waldshut,
endangering the peace with Austria; then the Anabaptists rose from the
very bosom of the new church, and lastly, Zwingli was attacked in the
Great Council by the secretary Am Gruet, touching the matter of tithes,
and again, a second time, in regard to the Lord's Supper--a prelude to
his subsequent controversy with Luther. "Here," cried they, "you have
the fruits." We have seen the best answer to this reproach in the
triumphant victory of Zwingli over all these difficulties. Another path
must be chosen. They began to learn from their antagonist.

"We will take the reformation into our hands," said the most sensible.
At a diet in Luzern, to which Zurich and Schaffhausen were n