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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 invectives
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 sentiwould
be found. Deputy Most organized an agitation for the
