In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

pulpit the Gospel as contained in the evangelists.
But the Bernese partook not a little of the rough
and stubborn nature of the animal that figures in
their cantonal shield. The clash of halberds and
swords had more attraction for their ears than the
sound of the Gospel. Haller's heart at times grew
faint. He would pour into the bosom of Zwingli all
his fears and griefs. He should perish one day by
the teeth of these bears: so he wrote. "No," would
Zwingli reply, in ringing words that made him
ashamed of his timidity, "you must tame these
bear-cubs by the Gospel. You must neither be
ashamed nor afraid of them. For whosoever is
ashamed of Christ before men, of him will Christ
be ashamed before His Father." Thus would
Zwingli lift up the hands that hung down, and set
them working with fresh rigor. The sweetness of
the Gospel doctrine was stronger than the sternness
of Bernese nature. The bear-cubs were tamed.
Reanimated by the letters of Zwingli, and the
arrival from Nuremberg of a Carthusian monk
named Kolb, with hoary head but a youthful heart,
fired with the love of the Gospel, and demanding,
as his only stipend, the liberty of preaching it,
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