cher in the still Catholic University at
Freiburg, in the Breisgau.[7] In the Small Council there was a
minority, few in numbers, with Adelberg Meier at their head, in favor
of reform; in the Great Council the number was larger, but also a
minority. Among the burghers, on the other hand, the party of
[OE]colampadius increased daily. To this, his behavior at Baden, which
drew praises even from his opponents, contributed no little. The
fluctuating opinions, in regard to the doctrine of the Lord's Supper,
had caused him, previous to the Conference at Baden, to make known his
view on the subject in a special work. The Council forbade its
publication, because nothing so stirred up the passions of men like
this. But now, since the matter had been publicly handled by him, in
the Religious Conference, there was no longer any reason to keep it
back from the press. Sent forth by one of the most famous professors in
the University, contradicted by none of his colleagues,[8] it came to
be looked upon in a certain measure as a confession of faith on the
part of the faculty. At the same time, also, [OE]colampadius, to the
great annoyance of his adversaries, succeeded in obtaining the
introduction of church-singing in German; for the government, in
accordance with the feeble advice of Erasmus, in answer to the question
as to how it should act amid the zeal for innovation breaking out on
all sides, adopted vacillating measures; to-day it suffered the
departure of individual monks and nuns from their cloisters; to-morrow,
in order to make such cases less frequent, it denied the rights of
citizenship to those who had gone out, and rendered the practice of any
worldly calling difficult; now it ratified episcopal laws, and then
arbitrarily abolished festival-days; in one church it supported the
celebration of the mass, in another allowed it to be abolished, so that
Basel was as good as given up by the Five Cantons. They refused the
Council there permission to examine the acts of the Religious
Conference at Baden before their publication, and on the 13th of July,
1526, resolved, in connection with Freiburg and Solothurn, to keep the
oath of confederation as little with Basel as with Zurich and St. Gall.

So determined were the Five Cantons, especially since the Conference
at Baden, only to acknowledge in the future those of their
Confederate-sisters as such, who would adhere along with them to the
former doctrines of the church. What author