peace not with carnal, but with spiritual, weapons. They use neither the sword of the world nor war, for to kill is forbidden,” etc. During the year 1523 the new sect grew rapidly in Switzerland. The idea also made great headway that the aim of the Church reformation was the re-establishment of primitive Christian condition, not merely in matters of theology, but of social practice. But for many months there was no open schism between the Brethren and the reforming party of Zwingli. They made it