Zwingli in Zurich. Beginning of the Reformation. Political and ecclesiastical affairs up to the first Religious Conference, 53 CHAPTER THIRD. Religious Conference in Zurich. The government takes the place of the Bishop for the protection and superintendence of the National Church, 106 CHAPTER FOURTH. Danger of the Reformation and Zwingli's battle against them, 164 CHAPTER FIFTH. Defence of the Old Order. Rise of the New, 203 CHAPTER SIXTH. Organization of the parties. Breach of the general peace, 258 CHAPTER SEVENTH. First Campaign. Zwingli and Luther, 283 CHAPTER EIGHTH. Internal condition of Switzerland after the first campaign. The Abbot of St. Gall. Political results of the Marburg Conference, 322 CHAPTER NINTH. Vain attempts at reconciliation. Exportation of corn prohibited. Outbreak of War. Battle of Cappel. Zwingli's death, 370 CHAPTER FIRST ZWINGLI'S YOUTH. HIS LABORS IN GLARUS AND EINSIEDELN. Near the source of the river Thur, in Wildhaus, a mountain-village of the Toggenburg, lived the bailiff Ulric Zwingli, with his wife Margaretta Meili, in moderate circumstances and universal esteem. Eight sons and two daughters were the fruit of their marriage. The third of these sons, born on the first of January 1484, seven weeks after Luther's birth-day, received the name of his father. A brother of the bailiff, Bartholomew Zwingli, was chosen by the burghers of Wildhaus, who a short time before had separated from the mother-church of Glarus, as the first pastor of the new congregation. The mother also had a brother of the clerical order, John Meili, abbot of Fischingen. A pious and friendly man, he loved the children of his sister, as if they were his own. In the bosom of an honest family, breathing the pure cool air of a green Alpine region, amid the simple pleasures of a shepherd's life, the little Ulric grew up vigorously, quick-witted, looking out into the world with clear eyes, and though somewhat rude like his countrymen, yet gifted with senses fully alive to the beauties of nature and the harmonies of voice and instrument.