...and write, but he labors hard to convince them of their error. " The civil authorities," he wrote, " are under obligation to compel the people to send...such citizens as are fit for military service to bear pike and musket, to mount ramparts and perform other military duties in time of war, how much more...

...jurists, pastors, scribes, physicians, school- masters, and the like; for these can not be dispensed with. If the government can compel such citizens as are...service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and pertorm other martial duties in time of war; how much more has it a right to compel the people to send...

...have not hitherto done, and bring up the young to fill the various offices instituted by God,_ But I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation...compel the people to send their children to school, especially such as are promising, as has elsewhere been said. For our rulers are certainly bound to...

...was always for two purposes — the welfare of the church and the prosperity of the state. He says : I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation...compel the people to send their children to school For our rulers are certainly bound to maintain the spiritual and secular offices and callings If the...

...parents to send their children. In his Sermon on the Duty of Sending Children to School, he says : " I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation...compel the people to send their children to school, especially such as are promising. For our rulers are certainly bound to maintain the spiritual and...

...parents to send their children. In his Sermon on the Duty of Sending Children t<? School, he says : " I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation...compel the people to send their children to school, especially such as are promising. For our rulers are certainly hound to maintain the spiritual and...

...order and the proper regulation of the household, needs accomplished and well-trained men and women I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation...compel the people to send their children to school, for our rulers are bound to maintain the spiritual and secular offices and callings Wherever the government...

...exercise the greatest care over the young." In his Sermon he even goes so far as •• o maintain : — " The civil authorities are under obligation to compel...bear spear and rifle,* to mount ramparts, and perform oth;r martial duties in time of war; how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their...

...succeed us and govern, x' ' In a sermon on this subject, preached and published in I530,1 he maintains that the civil authorities are under obligation to...compel the people to send their children to school, especially such as are promising; "for rulers are certainly bound to maintain the spiritual and secular...

...all the German Cities" in 1524 that "for the maintenance of civil order schools are necessary, and the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. "8 The doctrines of Calvin contained a similar implication. It was Protestantism, the desire for religious...