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course of Social Science at the universities. Theology and 
Political Economy are mutually connected by the closest ties.* 
It is only by means of Social Economy that the full scope of 
Christianity and its power of healing the ills of modern society 
can be properly appreciated. 
The higher dignitaries of the Evangelical Church held aloof 
from the movement, or indeed were hostile to it; but the 
common clergy were stirred by it More than seven hundred 
ministers sent in their adhesion to the “Central Union for 
Social Reform. Dr. Kögel, one of the Court preachers. Dr. 
Biichsel, the superintendent-general, and Dr. Bauer strongly 
urged the Protestant clergy to take up the Social question. 
Dr. Stöcker displayed wonderful courage. He attended public 
meetings at Berlin, where he confronted the most fanatical 
elements of the Socialist Demagogy, and sometimes, by sheer 
force of eloquence, he won cheers from the hostile crowd. He 
was attacked with extraordinary violence by Herr Most, one 
of the leaders of Berlinese Socialism, and a deputy to the 
Imperial Parliament. It is not easy to form any idea of the 
tone of these philippics, which were one long series of invec 
tives against Christianity and its ministers, ending with the 
glorification of atheism. “The Social Democracy will not 
recede, cried Herr Most in one of his speeches; “it will 
pursue its course and accomplish its designs, even though 
"all priestdom"(^^f«a;«;;//fV3^«/^^;;f) should rise against 
It, like a cloud of locusts, thick enough to darken the sun 
The Social Democracy knows that the days of Christianity are 
numbered, and that the time is not far distant when we shall 
say to the priests, ‘Settle your account with Heaven for your 
hour IS come.'" Inasmuch as Herr Stöcker and his friends 
were making an appeal to religious sentiments, and were 
endeavouring to show that it was in the principles and senti- 
would be found. Deputy Most organized an agitation for the