Mountain boy of Wildhaus : a life of Ulric Zwingli . unning streams so connected as to form a vastsurrounding triangle: reaching from Zurich onthe west by the way of the Zurich and Wallen-stadt lakes, to the river Rhine on the east;thence to the lake of Constance on the north-east, and by another reach of the Rhine backagain to Zurich. This vast triangular sectionof country, framed about with lakes of theutmost picturesqueness and beauty, tied togetherwith silver-threaded rivulets; with its hoarypeak of Sentis in the center, subdivided by thewild, and rapid torrent of the Thur which sweepsaway
Mountain boy of Wildhaus : a life of Ulric Zwingli . unning streams so connected as to form a vastsurrounding triangle: reaching from Zurich onthe west by the way of the Zurich and Wallen-stadt lakes, to the river Rhine on the east;thence to the lake of Constance on the north-east, and by another reach of the Rhine backagain to Zurich. This vast triangular sectionof country, framed about with lakes of theutmost picturesqueness and beauty, tied togetherwith silver-threaded rivulets; with its hoarypeak of Sentis in the center, subdivided by thewild, and rapid torrent of the Thur which sweepsaway northward through the valley of the Tog-genburg, fed as it is by the fountains at Wild-haus, and the glacier on Mt. Sentis : all thisforms a landscape at once bold and was a suitable spot for the birth-place ofthe great Swiss Reformer; for here nature hasdisplayed her grandeur in unusual form. Andon these Alpine heights God raised up stalwartsons, who, in after times, fought the worldsbattle of conscience and intellectual freedom. ;. CHAPTER II. BEGINNING LIFE. lN~a plain, but substantial, dwelling locatedon the green meadow which stretches along theright hand side of the highway leading out ofWildhaus towards the east, as has been already-intimated, we recognize the birth-place of thegreat Reformer. In the latter half of the fif-teenth century there lived here at the border ofthe village of Wildhaus, surrounded by their nu-merous flock of children, a respectable and piouscouple, Huldreich Zwingli and Margaritha,whose maiden name was Meili. Through theesteem in which this man was held by his fel-low-citizens, he had been raised to the honoredposition of Amman, or Magistrate of the village. This honor they had placed upon him as soonas they had obtained the authority, to electtheir magistrate, their judges, and their former years the people were not allowedthis privilege. But after long continued agita- 13 14 THE MOUNTAIN BOY. tion, they had succeeded i
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