Footnote 1: In substance, they had reference to the relation of the people to the government, the tithes, the rate of interest, villanage, freedom of trade, the property of the monasteries and the right to choose preachers. Footnote 2: Rœubli, Stumpf, and Brœdlein, whom we have mentioned. Footnote 3: Outside of the Confederacy. In what relation, is not clear from the connection. Footnote 4: This included not only the seven articles, (corn, rye, oats, barley, wheat, wine, hay), but whatever else each district had paid into the great tithe from time immemorial. Footnote 5: The subscription of this letter is characteristic: Conrad Grebel, Andreas Castelberg, Felix Manz, Heinrich Aberly, Johannes Brœdlin, Hans Oggenfuss, Hans Huiuf, thy countrymen of Hall, and seven new disciples of Muenzer rather than Luther. Footnote 6: _Huldreich Zwingli's Werke._ Herausg. von _Schuler_ und _Schulthess._ Band II. Abthg. 1. S. 230. ff. Footnote 7: Acts of the Apostles, xix, 3-5. Footnote 8: Bullinger has a description of the occurrence in his "Origin of the Anabaptists." Footnote 9: Called in latter times among the people, The Heretic's Tower. CHAPTER FIFTH. DEFENCE OF THE OLD ORDER. RISE OF THE NEW. To hold firmly to the existing order of things is not always proof of evil design, obstinacy or narrowness, as innovators are wont to assert; it may spring from strength of character, the experience of wisdom, and, if the existing order be good, even from a conviction of duty. Was this true of Catholicism? Let us apply the test. In the heart of man there lies a world full of rest and peace, full of blessed love, full of confidence in eternal duration and a God of power to uphold and protect; and this gives us the victory over all the darkness and plagues of earth. It speaks in living tones in the innocent child. To children, said Christ, belongs the kingdom of heaven. With growing years, with the birth of self-consciousness guilt comes to life, earlier in this one, later in that one, but once to all. It is the inheritance of earth. The nursery, the school, personal experience, the history of the world teaches it.