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the waves that thunder at its feet.”—Wylie, b.

8, ch. 11. The efforts of the ecclesiastics only

furthered the cause which they sought to

overthrow. The truth continued to spread. In

Germany its adherents, cast down by Luther's

disappearance, took heart again, as they saw

the progress of the gospel in Switzerland.

As the Reformation became established in

Zurich, its fruits were more fully seen in the

suppression of vice and the promotion of

order and harmony. “Peace has her

habitation in our town,” wrote Zwingli; “no

quarrel, no hypocrisy, no envy, no strife.

Whence can such union come but from the

Lord, and our doctrine, which fills us with the

fruits of peace and piety?”—Ibid., b. 8, ch. 15.

The victories gained by the Reformation

stirred the Romanists to still more

determined efforts for its overthrow. Seeing