After Calvin’s return from the disputation of Lausanne, he resumed his lectures and expositions of St. Paul’s Epistles in the church of St. Peter. These lectures were well attended, and created an interest which continually increased. Ere long, the superiority of the young doctor and of his teaching, at once so profound and so animated, excited in the Genevese the desire that he should definitely settle among them. Towards the close of the year 1536, the office of pastor was added to that of doctor. ‘He was elected and declared such in that church by regular election and approbation.’[439] Calvin, at a later period, felt bound to insist, in his letter to Cardinal Sadoleto, on the regularity of that call. ‘In the first place,’ said he, ‘I discharged in that church the office of reader, and afterwards that of minister and pastor. And as far as regards my undertaking the second charge, I maintain for my right that I did so lawfully and by a regular call.’[440] Calvin had not forgotten France, and he never did forget her. He had himself just instigated an intervention of several German and Swiss towns in favor of the French Protestants. It was doubtless on this subject that he wrote from Lausanne to his friend François Daniel, October 13, 1536: ‘To-morrow, if the Lord will, I am going to Berne, respecting a business of which I will speak to you another time. I am afraid that it may even be necessary for me to go as far as Basel, notwithstanding the state of my health and the present ungenial season.’[441] But nevertheless, without forgetting his old country, he attached himself to his new one. That republic appeared to suit his taste. Having become pastor at Geneva, he gave his attention to what he had to do in order to substitute for the Church of the pope a real evangelical Church. [Sidenote: THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY.]