Crossword-Solution: OLTEN 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The national synod held at Olten in 1876 introduced the vernacular into the church services, abolished the compulsory celibacy of the clergy and obligatory confession of communicants, and elected Professor Herzog bishop, Reinkens giving him episcopal consecration.

The outbreaks incited by rebel clergy in the Jura were put down by the military, sixty-nine clergymen were exiled, and, so far as the means allowed, replaced by liberal successors introduced by the Old Catholic priest Herzog (§ 190, 3) in Olten.

The following histories of outbreaks of typhoid fever will show clearly how the dejections of patients may be the means of propagating the disease to others: ILLUSTRATIVE CASES--Lausen[29] is a village lying on the railway between Basle and Olten shortly before coming to the great Hauenstein Tunnel.

Our equanimity, it is true, was disturbed at the junction at Olten—by the sight of that manufacturing town full of the “free thought” and advanced liberals of modern society, the head‐quarters of Old‐Catholic meetings, and the only place where, at that date, the parish church had been given up to one of the few rebellious priests, whilst its true pastor was obliged to live in a small private house, where he still ministered to his old flock as in the days of early Christian persecution.

They are all staunch Catholics, he says, except a few, who are lukewarm and seduced by the rationalism and liberalism of Olten and Berne.