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esl light OF authority a1,d evidence unnect:s-
sars. Ohr faith need not he disturbed by the
BISHOP IIERZOG.


assertion Or poetry of peculiar men.
BISHOP uERZOG.
ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE OLD CATHo-
Lie MOVEMENT.
7xe Lfrtng tAtrrh
Edouard Herzog was born in Schongau,
Canton Luzerne, Switzerland; studied Ln~
der the Catholic Theological Faculty of
Bonn, and especially under profs. Reinkens
and Reusc},, with whom he was afterwards
to have such close ecclesiastical relations;
and, at the Tina of the Council Of the Vat-
can, held the post Of Lecturer III Divinity in
the University of Luzerne.
When, on the 18th of February, 1871, Pfar-
rer Egli, Of Luzerne, uttered the first public
protest in Switzerland against the Vatican
DEGREES, Prof. lIerzog had been publishing,
1or short time, weekly paper which
claimed to defend the Old Catholic teaching.
He was cited TO appear before Dr.. Winkler,
the Conmissary Bishop of I.achat; but, al
though he frankly ayowcd his convictions,
no Official notice was at the time taken Of 1t,
the Bishop himself being engaged in coll
test with the civil authorities Of the Canons;
and the Commissary, judging from his SUBJ
agree with the Professor than otherwise.
The Swiss anti-Vatican movement, as
such. was inaugurated by a large meeting Of
SWISS CATHOLIC laity, held at Soleure, i'll
ing. AT this gathering a central committee
was appointed. Of which the eminent Swiss
staleslnan l4andammann Keller was the
| Chairman:-the same who soon afterword
! vas one OF the Vlce-P Presidents Of tho Munich
congress OF that month.
IN the following summer, Prof Herzog
| published a letter 10 Bishop Lachat, openly
refusing to accept the Vatican aecrces; and
be was at once selected by his old friends at
| parish at Crefeld, in Prussia, from which
| place he attended the Congress of Cologne,
| and saw and heard the late Bishop OF Mary
land, as well as the English Bishops there
! present.
Late in 1872, Prof. Reinkens visited Switzer-
land; and, addressing several large meetings.
| especially one Of some 900 persons in the
parish church at Often, gavs. now life and
impulse to the movement there. In June,
1sSt, he was elected first Old Catholic Bishop
for Germany. ami being consecrated in All
gust, sent Pfarrer Herzog to take charge at
Often, from which time he became the lead
ing. theological influence III the! inchoate
Swiss Church. About the same time, Sec
ond Conference Of some two hundred and
fifty persons, held at Often, intrustcd to
pfarrer Herzoe and Landamnann Keller the
duty Of drawing 1p project Of organlza-
LII September, these both attended the
izaton Of the German old Catholics was per
1ccted.
founded the Old Catholic Faculty in the
University of that city, of which Pfarrer
Herzog was appointed the head; ct Easter,
1915, he took the leading part in q most
important gathering and service at st. Gall,
and in September he attended the second
Conference of Bonn.
The proposed constitution of this Swiss
Church was still quite radical in some re-
nlcatholie subjection to lay direction; and
llerzos, being approached with reference
to the Bishopric, refused ever to consider it
nnder such circumstances. During the year.
however. the. constitution was materially
modified in this respect, and at the second
Synod, held at Often, il. June. 1916. 16a
deputies being present {out of sixty-siN
priests and 14o iayn:n chosen 10 take partl
pfarrer lIerzog WAS elected on On tlle t tlrst
earnestly refused the office; but such was
the pressure brought to bear upon
llin,, ro1 only by members OF the
Synod, but by telegraph, frnm other parts ot
constrained to yield and accept. 1t Is also
especially to be noted that this same Syaod
, passed resolutions looking forward I" future
union with the !;rsek and Anslican
this time in Geneva. always laborcd to secure
this union, In the Oriental rather than i'll the
Occidental direction; but the endeaynr Of
Pfarrer lIerzos was ever the precise reverse
10 ms c.,4,,o,;. 1,;oha <o~ c,,,;t1.~
lhe Intls.la 11aoc ~ 4Sn1p ,'f,to tot on'r11 nto
lane WIS co'iseeiun a. >e,.l.'s.' M EH,o, ;;si, ~,
: ;einkens; OF GcIn.a.ny;% % am pnoltSned IN h,s
' IT, ee :, c n,t.i..r ~ cu s.'.n>
81 nf.S , tha Il, S;sa Ri.h,s ~ no nn
., H9.s;a"a ", @ ,r5 T., na.n,,,,oe tho pa,,s
h;u,s.1f 1.;u,t nnhli:haI ' - Nil ava;n.t Inn
conservation in the yery terms il, Which he
! | prufessed 10 ueposc nfnf. lD oOth o1 these
uocn3!ieilts l5lstiop l1crZOs puDlsncu learned
anu lose lep4ts. 1He osHo! W!lcti AgI II
ille t ,;a d,n;.s;ho =. iil1 1.U, s,,
Cathnlic: and the Rishon. il, his PASTORAL :,
+ Dec. ~, 1878, authorized it i'll the Swis
q Church. 49,.
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