Before the separation the Protestant pastors and the Jewish rabbis were maintained by the State no less than the Catholic clergy.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
In a few months seven hundred pastors, besides many from other professions, including Dr. Koegel, Court preacher, and Dr. Buchsel, a German Superintendent, had enrolled themselves in the Central Union for Social Reform; and the Christian Social Working Men's Party had seventeen hundred members in Berlin, and a considerable number throughout the provinces.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Let pastors awake and bring the subject strongly and repeatedly before their people.
"Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country"
William Swan Plumer