Ranke says: “Protestant opinions had triumphed in the universities and educational establishments. Those old champions of Catholicism [the teachers] who had withstood Luther were dead, or in advanced years: young men capable of supplying their places had not yet arisen. Twenty years had elapsed in Vienna _since a single student of the university_ had taken priest’s orders. Even in Ingoldstadt, pre-eminently Catholic as it was, _no competent candidates of the faculty of theology presented themselves to fill the places that had hitherto been always occupied by ecclesiastics_. The city of Cologne founded an endowed school; but when all the arrangements for it had been made, it was found that the regent was a Protestant. Cardinal Otto Truchess established a new university in his city of Dillingen, _with the express design of resisting the progress of Protestantism_. The credit of this institution was maintained for some years by a few distinguished Spanish theologians; but as soon as these left it, NOT A SINGLE SCHOLAR COULD BE FOUND IN ALL GERMANY TO SUCCEED TO THEIR PLACES, and even these were likewise filled with Protestants. ABOUT THIS PERIOD THE TEACHERS IN GERMANY WERE ALL, almost without exception, Protestants. THE WHOLE BODY OF THE RISING GENERATION SAT AT THEIR FEET, and imbibed a hatred of the pope with the first rudiments of learning.”[129] [Sidenote: Success of Reformation due to schools] Stress is not laid on their hatred of the pope, but on the fact that the rising generation sat at the feet of Protestant teachers throughout Germany; that parents withheld their children from the papal school, even though it might be necessary in so doing to send them from home to be educated; and finally, that the papacy was dying, and Protestantism was spreading through the work of the schools. Would that those schools might have retained their pristine purity and simplicity. No power on earth could then have retarded the progress of Protestantism, and instead of only modifying the history of many countries, it would eventually have swept from the earth all forms of tyranny, both civil and religious, for it breathed the freedom of the gospel, and no oppression could stand before it. It is as impossible to withstand pure Christian education as it is to withstand Christ, whose power is its life and strength. [Sidenote: Protestants failed to recognize its strength] It is with a pang that one is forced to trace in this movement that oft-repeated chapter in the history of mankind. As the leader of Israel was allowed to view the promised land from the top of Pisgah, but must there lay aside his armor and sleep the sleep of death because of a departure from right principles, so Protestantism, through its schools, looked across Jordan, but failed to maintain the principle of faith which could at the crucial moment command the waters to part. [Sidenote: Education by faith lost]