In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie
- No tags were found...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
mountains awoke responsive <strong>to</strong> the voice of the<br />
preacher proclaiming the "good tidings," and the<br />
psalm with which their service was closed blended<br />
with the sound of the <strong>to</strong>rrents as they rolled down<br />
<strong>from</strong> the summits. Out of the eight parishes of the<br />
can<strong>to</strong>n, six embraced the Reformation.<br />
Following the course of the Upper Rhine, the<br />
Protestant movement penetrated <strong>to</strong> Coire, which<br />
nestles at the foot of the Splugen pass. The soil had<br />
been prepared here by the schoolmaster<br />
Salandrinus, a friend of Zwingli. <strong>In</strong> 1523 the Diet<br />
met at Coire <strong>to</strong> take in<strong>to</strong> consideration the abuses<br />
in the Church, and <strong>to</strong> devise means for their<br />
removal. Eighteen articles were drawn up and<br />
confirmed in the year following, of which we give<br />
only the first as being the most important: "Each<br />
clergyman shall, for himself, purely and fully<br />
preach the Word of God and the doctrine of Christ<br />
<strong>to</strong> his people, and shall not mislead them by the<br />
doctrines of human invention. Whoever will not or<br />
cannot fulfill this official duty shall be deprived of<br />
his living, and draw no part of the same." <strong>In</strong> virtue<br />
of this decision, the Dean of St. Martin's, after a<br />
134