Footnote 9: The assailed could indeed appeal, at least for a partial justification of their love of the chase, to an article of their statutes, revised in the year 1346, according to which and others, a horse, a hound, and a falcon or sparrow-hawk, for hunting, had to be presented to the chaplain of the foundation, who ministered at the annual festival in the church of Zollikon. Footnote 10: Satisfactory explanations of them are given by _Wirz_ in his Swiss Church History, continued by _Kirchhofer_, Vol. V. p. 139. Footnote 11: In St. Gall, for instance, forty wagon-loads of the ruins of wood en images were carried to the swamps and burnt there. "Every body fell upon the idols. We tore them from the altar, the walls and the pillars. The altars were beaten down, the idols split to pieces with axes, or smashed by hammers. You would have thought it a field of battle. What a noise! what a breaking! what an echoing in the lofty ceiling!" _Kessler_. Footnote 12: _For scientific readers_: Neither mysticism and pietism, nor dogmatism alone are able to sustain the Protestant churches. Mysticism and pietism yield to more consistent Catholicism; dogmatism, without symbolical books, which lose their authority where the press is free, succumbs to philosophy. The simple _eternal_ dogma of Christ stands: _By its fruit shall ye know the tree._ The time will yet come, when all who practically reverence this dogma, will form the one, universal church, and all others, be they marked with the cross or protests against it, the no-church. For this no revolution is needed, not even much change in forms. _It will come from within._ Footnote 13: Why? will be seen hereafter. Footnote 14: In the "Advice concerning Images and the Mass." Footnote 15: The contradictions in the character and behavior of this man, who was rather eccentric than morally corrupt, are well depicted in _Kirchofer's_ Continuation of _Wirz's_ Church History, Part II. p. 222. Footnote 16: It was publicly read. Footnote 17: She was the widow of Hans Meier of Knonau, who died in 1520, and had a son by him, named Gerold, whom Zwingli loved like a father and to whom he dedicated a work on the education of youth. Little is known of her during her marriage with Zwingli. But a single short letter is extant, written by her husband from Bern, in which he asks her to send a cap-pattern to one of her relations there. Solomon Hess in his Biography thinks that Zwingli read his writings aloud to her. The author begs leave to doubt this, indeed rather to believe, that he would have heartily laughed, if the learned stuff was tedious to her. Mind and heart she certainly had, and he talked with her not merely about kitchen and cellar; but she probably studied him more in his actions, than in his works. CHAPTER FOURTH. DANGERS OF THE REFORMATION AND ZWINGLI'S BATTLE AGAINST THEM.