In the following November the Imperial Parliament passed a law that ecclesiastics abusing their office, to the disturbance of the public peace, should be criminally punished.

And, guided by the principle that the future belongs to him to whom the school belongs, a movement arose for the purpose of separating the schools from the Church.
THE CHURCH A POLITICAL POWER.

The Jesuit party was extending and strengthening an organization all over Germany, based on the principle that state legislation in ecclesiastical matters is not binding.

Here was an act of open insurrection.

Could the government allow itself to be intimidated?
The Bishop of Ermeland declared that he would not obey the laws of the state if they touched the Church.