Note 118 — Chapter III
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The prevailing idea was that the Evangelical pastors were the servants of the community, and therefore of the Councils which represented it. J. J. Watteville, the celebrated Advoyer or President of Bern, and a strong and generous supporter of the Reformation, was accustomed to say: “Nothing prevents me dismissing a servant when he displeases me; why should not a town send its pastor away if it likes?” (Herminjard, Correspondance, vii. 354 n.).