In Switzerland from 1516 to 1525 - James Aitken Wylie

discountenanced the superstitious usages of his
Church, and in his heart had no great affection for
the mass, and in fact had dropped the celebration of
it. One day, as some visitors were urging him to
say mass, he replied, "If Jesus Christ is veritably in
the Host, I am not worthy to offer Him in sacrifice
to the Father; and if He be not in the Host, I should
be more unhappy still, for I should make the people
adore bread in place of God."
Ought he to leave Glarus, and bury himself on
a solitary mountain-top? This was the question
Zwingli put to himself. He might, he thought, as
well go to his grave at once; and yet, if he accepted
the call, it was no tomb in which he would be
shutting himself up. It was a famed resort of
pilgrims, in which he might hope to prosecute with
advantage the great work of enlightening his
countrymen. He therefore decided to avail himself
of the opportunity thus offered for carrying on his
mission in a new and important field.
The Convent of Einsiedeln was situated on a
little hill between the Lakes of Zurich and
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