ABSTRACT
While animating his cohorts to the fray, the captain was straining every nerve to supply an organization and discipline adequate to their needs. On returning from the Wartburg he had found things in great confusion and his first task was to restore order. The old form of service with slight alterations was reestablished in the parish church. Communion was administered in one or in both kinds according to the preference of the recipient; and the only change in the mass was the omission of the words purporting to change the elements into Christ's body and blood, an alteration made easy, as the Reformer remarked, by the fact that the parishioners did not know Latin and hence could not perceive it. A like moderation was used in respect to images; believers were discouraged from praying to the saints, but the heads of neither the images nor their venerators were broken as under the Carlstadt regime.
