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38544At one time a peasant came out of his house and called to us in a rough tone of voice,''Boys, where are you?''
38544Can nothing move you, my daughter?
38544Dr. Jonas called into his ear,"Reverend father, are you firmly determined to die upon Christ and the doctrine you have preached?"
38544Evidently vexed at this reply, Urban asked,"Do you think that the elector will go to war on your account?"
38544For he hoped by this visit to the holy(?)
38544For if we could gain peace of conscience by our own works and sufferings, why did He die?
38544His wife looked at him and asked,"Are you going to give everything away?"
38544How do they read?"
38544I asked the man whose garden it is,''What little children are these?''
38544In such periods of depression he would often exclaim,"Oh, when wilt thou become really pious and atone for thy sins, and obtain the grace of God?"
38544O God, if Luther is dead, who henceforth will purely preach to us the holy Gospel?"
38544Polycarp exclaimed:"For eighty- six years I have served Him, and He has done me no ill; how can I now denounce my King and my Savior?"
38544The duke, though also very bitter against Luther, asked,"What kind of hymns are they?
38544Urban:"What would you do if you had the Pope and the cardinals in your power?"
38544Urban:"Where do you intend to stay then?"
38544What do you fear?
38544Who could break these fetters?
38544Who is to be gracious to us if not God?"
38544Why do you hesitate?"
38544Why, have you not heard that parents should be obeyed, and that nothing should be undertaken without their knowledge and advice?"
16797Fly?
16797Then two of his friends put to him the solemn question:''Reverend Father, do you die in Christ and in the doctrine you have constantly preached?'' 16797 [ 28] And, with all, where is the gain or wisdom of blowing smoke upon a diamond?
16797--"And do I not believe that?"
16797Beginning of Colonization in America, 137.--Movements in Sweden, 138.--Swedish Proposals, 143.--Was Penn Aware of these Plans?
16797But the cardinals said, How can the Church reform itself without a head?
16797But what are oaths and fore- pledges to candidates greedy for office?
16797But what, otherwise, would have become of the Reformation?
16797Charles hurried to convene his council, saying,"Luther is come; what shall we do with him?"
16797Henceforth the question was, Which of them should sway the nations in the time to come?
16797His father hated monkery, and he shared the feeling; but, if it would save him, why hesitate?
16797If he had the truth of God, as he verily believed, what were the pope and all devils against Jehovah?
16797If the strong arm of the emperor should be given to sustain the pope, who would be able to stand?
16797Is he not sworn to defend God''s holy Word and Gospel?
16797It is easy to tell a crab to fly, but will he do it?
16797Luther was told that it was useless to think that the civil powers would go to war for his protection; and where would he then be?
16797Shall those holy ashes be left to be trodden in the mire?"
16797The whole history is this: Are these your books?
16797WAS PENN AWARE OF THESE PLANS?
16797Was he right?
16797What was a father''s displeasure or the loss of all the favors of the world to his safety against a hopeless perdition?
16797What will be his eternal fate and that of his people should he now hold his peace?
16797What would a Chesterfield or an Addison have been in such a contest?
16797Whither was the world drifting?
16797_ Yes._--Will you retract them?
16797or was he wrong?
7970''But,''asked Luther,''how many are there who can read those words on the Emperor''s banner, or who seriously believe in them?''
7970''But,''said Vergerius,''would you have him come with arms or without?''
7970''Have we no Archbishops and Bishops in Germany, that we must kiss the feet of this one?
7970''What have we to do with Rome and its Bishop?''
7970''What wonder were it, should princes, nobles, and laymen beat them on the head, and hunt them out of the country?''
7970''Where then do you mean to take refuge?''
7970''Who can comprehend the honour and dignity of a Christian?
7970''Who knows,''he said,''what God may wish to do?''
7970''Would you come to Bologna?''
7970And did not the very futility of his own endeavours hitherto prove that it was the former fate that hung over him?
7970But we call to mind the words he had spoken in 1532,''Who knows what God will do before ten years are over?''
7970But what fruit, indeed, could be looked for from his words, uttered evidently with violent inward emotion, when popular passion was so excited?
7970Does He say that to the wind, or does He throw his words before animals?...
7970Flight to France was continually talked of; had he not followed in his appeal a precedent set by the university of Paris?
7970For instance, they might take a grudge against the clergy and cry out, if admonished by them, what can a mere clerk know about it?
7970For their benefit he wished to describe compendiously the''sum of a Christian life''; to deal thoroughly with the question,''What was a Christian?
7970He then asked,''Where is my darling little Hans?''
7970His father replied in the presence of all the company,''Learned brothers, have you not read in Holy Writ, that a man must honour father and mother?''
7970How could the Pope possibly tolerate a free Christian Council when he must be quite aware how disadvantageous such a Council would be to himself?
7970How could these words be reconciled with the fact that the secular arm resisted wrong with force, and raised the sword against the evil- doer?
7970How dare a man make a vow to God, which God must first endue him with the power to keep?
7970How far obedience is due to it?
7970How was that consistent with the acts of ecclesiastical penance, such as absolution in particular, which must be obtained from the priest?
7970If I have stood up against the Pope, why should I yield to his creature?''
7970Is it just and right that Thou shouldst reject the wise, and receive the foolish?
7970May he not also come into this garden, and eat these nice pears and apples, and ride a little horse and play with these children?"
7970May the Lord increase faith in you and all of us; if we have that, what in all the world shall the devil do with us?''
7970Meanwhile Butzer and Philip had to rest content with this; and was it not an important step forwards?
7970Must not the letter of the Old Testament be the law for other things as well as images?
7970My sins, death, Satan with all his angels-- all rage unceasingly; and what could comfort me if Christ were to forsake me, for Whose sake they hate me?
7970Once, as they were singing before the door of a solitary farmhouse, the farmer came out and called to them roughly,''Where are you, young rascals?''
7970Shall we tell them that the Pope must be obeyed so that peace and unity may be preserved?''
7970Was it not better to be slain at home, in obedience to God, than to be taken prisoners and dragged away like cattle to be sold?
7970Was it then really God''s own will, he asked himself, that he should become actually purged from sin and thereby be saved?
7970What more can the devil do than strangle us?
7970What, then, is really essential for the continuance of the Church, and how far does it extend?
7970Who ever made a stronger stand against the peasants, with writing and preaching, than myself?''
7970Who knows what God will do after the Diet of Augsburg, even before ten years have gone by?''
7970Would they not willingly sacrifice a little gift in order to obtain everlasting life?
7970and should you not then speak and teach the doctrine or the little Word?
16322But is it not horrid?
16322But what are they doing this beastly work for?
16322Now tell me, how much sense does the head have that lays down a command on a matter where it has no authority? 16322 What is it?"
16322When will I ever attain to that state of mind that I am sure God is pleased with me?
16322Who is Paul,he exclaims,"and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed?
16322''Of what use is salt,''he exclaims in another passage,''if it do not bite the tongue?
1632210, 15:"How shall they preach, except they be sent?
1632213, 1)?
1632214, 3);"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
1632216, 18 signify Peter?
163222, 18)?
163222, 8), or when he speaks slightingly of the observance on which the Colossians prided themselves as"rudiments of the world"( Col. 2, 20)?
16322A beautiful sentiment for an anarchist to utter, is it not?
16322After declaring to the Romans:"Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,"he raises the question:"What shall we say then?
16322Ah, says our Catholic critic, but was he not free to change his mind?
16322And if any man sin,"-- mark this well:"If any man sin,"though he ought not to sin,--what does the apostle say to him?
16322And now, what does Luther say on the subject of polygamy?
16322But did not Luther sanction the bigamy of Philip of Hesse?
16322But did not the Lord proceed to declare Peter the rock on which He would build His Church?
16322But does this estimate of Luther square with the facts in the case?
16322But if these laymen are allowed to do their work without restraint, what do the Romanist scribes mean by their laws?
16322But should not the spiritual and temporal powers combine to find some means of meeting these difficulties without any such heathen practise?
16322But supposing there were superabundant merits, supererogatory works of Christ and the saints, who has determined their quantity?
16322But was it necessary, in speaking of the inability of the Law to save men, to use such strong and contemptuous terms as Luther has used?
16322But what about the answer of the Lord to the rich young man?
16322But what about the many coarse references in Luther''s writings to sexual matters- references which are unprintable nowadays?
16322But who was there at that time who would have taught me how I had to go about it?
16322But why did not these excellent principles attain better results in Luther''s own time?
16322Can any language of contempt in which Luther afterwards spoke of this doughty champion of Rome be too strong?
16322Can the reader guess why?
16322Can the reader imagine a cause for this phenomenon?
16322Can the reader suggest a reason?
16322Can they do any more?
16322Could there be a better faith than this, a faith less free from worry and anxiety?
16322Dare I believe myself so smart as to know better than the Church?"
16322Did Luther say, and did Mathesius report, that up to the year 1505 he had not known of the Bible?
16322Did Melanchthon contemplate some crime which he was too timid to perpetrate?
16322Did not King Diarmid have two legitimate wives and two concubines?
16322Did you see that naughty man stab the pretty soldier right through his uniform?"
16322Do you forbid even to bark at these wolves?
16322Do you think the price paltry and the payment small that has been made for us by this great Lamb?"
16322Does Rome perhaps think the same of all the pious pilgrims that annually crowd Rome?
16322Does not the doctrine of justification by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law, abolish the holy and good Law of God?
16322Does not the prophet say,"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and keepeth back his sword from blood"?''"
16322Does the true Law of God, when properly applied, ever have any other effect upon natural man?
16322Every night were the corpses of murdered men found in the streets, yet none dared move; for who but might fear that his turn would be next?
16322For God''s sake, how can you conceive a thought like that?
16322For what is your life?
16322For, does not their system of indulgences rest on a theory of imputation?
16322Had they ever had a greater bargain offered to them?
16322Has it created that chaos and confusion which Catholics claim it must inevitably lead to?
16322Has not one of the canonized saints of Rome, St. Augustine, declared that bigamy might be permitted if a wife was sterile?
16322Has not the married relationship come up for"dispensation"in the chancelleries of the Vatican innumerable times?
16322Has the reader ever heard of such an officer of the Roman Church as the inquisitor, one of whose duties it was to hunt for Bibles among the people?
16322Have they really no such thing as a"dispensation"at Rome?
16322Have you only written, and not read what you have written?
16322He felt like Paul when he groaned:"O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
16322He says:"What need is there why we should try to find all sorts of reasons to explain why the fathers under Moses were permitted to have many wives?
16322He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
16322How can I come to I live righteously?
16322How can I hope to die calmly, in the confidence that I am going to heaven?
16322How could a person pay for a donation, especially such a donation of spiritual and heavenly treasures?
16322How did they treat the just claims and reasonable demands of the German nation for measures that were admitted to be crying needs of the times?
16322How did this power become attached to Rome?
16322How do I obtain a good conscience?
16322How do so many towns and villages manage to exist without these houses?
16322How else can heretics be kept it bay?''
16322How fitting would it be if the Leipzig authorities would lay down laws for us at Wittenberg, or we at Wittenberg for the people of Leipzig?
16322How had they treated Luther?
16322How had they treated simple laymen in whose possession a Bible was found?
16322How is my sin to be forgiven?
16322How is this intelligence conveyed to purgatory that Mr. So- and- so is free to proceed to heaven?
16322How many parishioners in all the Catholic churches of this country to- day own a Bible?
16322How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"
16322How?
16322However, did not Luther and Catherine both perjure themselves by marrying?
16322If Peter possessed the supremacy that Catholics claim for him, how and by what right did he dispose of it at his death?
16322If a priest is killed, the country is laid under an interdict; why not also if a peasant is killed?
16322If any engage in such proceedings and drag my name into it, what can I do to stop them?
16322If that is the case, why do they attack Luther for his attempt to have the abuses corrected?
16322If the people of Israel existed without this scandal, why should not a Christian nation be able do so?
16322If there is such a thing among Protestants as"religious veneration"of Luther, what shall we call the veneration of Mary among Catholics?
16322If this is not adding insult to injury, what is?
16322If this is not so, of what use is the Bible?
16322If you have not heard of him before, look him up in_ Who is Who?_ most anywhere.
16322In a letter addressed to Joseph Levin Metzsch of December 9, 1526, Luther says:"Your first question: Whether person may have more than one wife?
16322Is he not reported in his Table Talk to have said that looking at a pretty woman or taking a hearty drink would dispel gloomy thoughts?
16322Is it anything else in the case of other men?
16322Is it not remarkable that Joseph Smith himself does not cite Luther as his authority in defense of plural marriages?
16322Is that evidence?
16322Is that possible?
16322Is the lock on the gate of heaven a common padlock, or like the cunning contrivances which are nowadays employed in safety vaults?
16322It says:"If God be for us, who can be against us?
16322Luther, Repudiates the Ten Commandments?
16322Now tell me, how can a man see, know, judge, sentence, and change the heart?
16322Or to Hallam in his_ Middle Ages_, where he reports concubinage in Europe?
16322Or to Lea, who proves that this evil was not confined to the laity?
16322Otherwise, what is to become of the Bible?"
16322Quite correct; but is not monasticism by itself an outrage upon human nature?
16322Rome will say: Why do you not do as we do in our Church?
16322Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?"
16322Tell me, would that be German?
16322The Lord had addressed to all His disciples the question,"Whom say ye that I am?"
16322The doctor:''Well, what does the Church believe?''
16322The people needed a leader, and who was better qualified for that than their trusted prince?
16322They must be entirely left out of account when such questions are to be answered as these: How do I obtain a gracious God?
16322Was He a slanderer when He called the Jews an adulterous and perverse generation, the offspring of vipers, hypocrites, sons of the devil?
16322Was not concubinage still recognized by law in the sixteenth century in Ireland?
16322Was the Church in those days built on a canting hypocrite?
16322Were not penances imposed on him in the confessional for every default?
16322What German would understand that?
16322What about the commandment to be perfect?
16322What about their religious vow, which had been given to God?
16322What are the facts in the case?
16322What are we to say about this antipapal violence of Luther?
16322What became of the Church in the night when Peter denied the Lord?
16322What bold immoral act did Weller commit in consequence of Luther''s advice?
16322What can poor mortal man do to break down such a cause?
16322What caused Luther to write those words?
16322What do you think of Christ?
16322What does the Bible say about faith being assurance of pardon and everlasting life?
16322What does the Bible say about faith without works as a means of justification?
16322What does the Bible say about man''s ability to fulfil the Law of God?
16322What does the Bible say about the condition of natural man after the fall?
16322What does the Bible say about the powers of natural man after the fall in reference to spiritual matters?
16322What does the Bible say about the relation of Christ to the Law and to sin?
16322What does the Bible say about the value of man''s works of righteousness performed by his natural powers?
16322What does the common law say about the prosecution coming into court with clean hands?
16322What effect has it had on human progress in every field of secular activity in Protestant lands?
16322What else does living mean than to be glad in the Lord?
16322What have Catholics to say in rejoinder to Sir Henry Maine''s assertion that the Canon Law of their Church brought about numerous sexual inequalities?
16322What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me?"
16322What have I done, he exclaims, to deserve the enmity of the Pope and his rabble, except that I have preached Christ?
16322What immoralities are there in Luther''s own life?
16322What is Luther?
16322What is the evidence?
16322What is there fatalistic about this?
16322What profit can there be in arguing the impossibility of a thing when the reality confronts you?
16322What sanctifying virtue lies in abstaining from beefsteak on Friday?
16322What sort of thing is''abundance of heart( Ueberfluss des Herzens)''?
16322What was their inquisitorial court but the anteroom to holy butchers''shambles, the legal vestibule to murder that had been sanctioned by the Popes?
16322Whence comes this great difference among equal Christians?
16322Whenever this happened, was it not his duty to endeavor to repair the damage?
16322Where is Erasmus to- day in the world''s valuation?
16322Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
16322Who is he that condemneth?
16322Who shall lay anything to the charge of God''s elect?
16322Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
16322Who takes the inventory of this stock of the papal bank of Rome?
16322Who would not hold as of unsound mind the person who would command the moon to shine when it wishes?
16322Why did he not gently flatter him, that he might convert him, rather than thunder in such a way?
16322Why do not the Catholics embrace the early Christians in their charge of Bible mutilation?
16322Why do we not believe all the angels, since a single one of them has greater authority than the Pope?
16322Why do we not believe the Bible, when one passage of Scripture outweighs all the books in the world?"
16322Why scruple about a sin?
16322Why should not great cities be able to do so?
16322Why worry?
16322With the magnificent printing and publishing facilities of our times, how many persons are still without the Bible?
16322Would not every firm believer in the deity and Redeemership of Christ become the rock on which the Church is built just as much as Peter?
16322Yes, so the text reads, and with Luther we should now inquire: Was it a brass, or silver, or golden, or wooden key?
16322and your labor for that which satisfieth not?
16322note: sic] subjected to?
16322or the blade of a sword unless it be sharp enough to cut?
16322shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
16322that one should sin to spite the devil?
16322you''ve done it, you have squared your account again with the Almighty"?
36433A penitent? 36433 After these words, he asked,--"''Where have you studied hitherto?''
36433Ah, Eva,he said sadly,"have you forgotten that not only is the devil in the world, but sin in the heart?
36433All I loved in it are dead, and what could I do there, with the body of an old man and the helpless inexperience of a child? 36433 And meantime?"
36433And should our lines ever be mingled in one?
36433And since then?
36433And what did people say of it?
36433And when did God ever say it was sin for a priest to marry?
36433And why are those other windows closed all down the street?
36433And why not Fritz?
36433And, Elsè,he said,"why is Master Bürer''s house opposite closed?"
36433And_ you_ think?
36433Are you addressing me?
36433Are you the man who is to overturn the popedom?
36433But are these feuds never to die out?
36433But are you not afraid,some one asked her,"of dishonouring God by denying his messengers, if, after all, these prophets should be sent from him?"
36433But do you know the danger?
36433But how can I suffer you to be under one roof?
36433But if the ecclesiastical abuses came to interfere with the salvation of men''s souls,I suggested,"what would Dr. Luther do then?"
36433But is not our father''s calling nobler than any one''s, and our home the nicest in the world?
36433But to you, father?
36433But what do you think of Aunt Agnes?
36433But what has that to do with Eva?
36433But what will be the portion of those who call what God sanctions sin,he said,"and bring trouble and pollution into hearts as pure as hers?"
36433But who is to begin it?
36433Can anything be more full of respect for the Pope and the Church than many of these these s are? 36433 Can it be Dr. Luther?
36433Can nothing be done?
36433Can they not send any one else?
36433Cousin Elsè,replied Eva,"did you not see the mother''s lip quiver when she turned to wish us good night?"
36433Dear father,said Martin,"what was the reason of thy objecting to my choice to become a monk?
36433Did I not know the whole martyrology before your mother was born? 36433 Did not the gospel first take root among peasants?"
36433Did nothing comfort him?
36433Did our mother say that?
36433Did she become a penitent, then?
36433Did you mean then to imply that she has anything to be proud of?
36433Did you pass any merchandise on your road?
36433Do n''t you like it, my child? 36433 Do the people throng to hear his sermons, and hang on his words as if they were words of life?"
36433Do you belong to Erfurt?
36433Do you call that a consultation?
36433Do you contradict me, child?
36433Do you know where she is?
36433Do you mean in heaven, Eva?
36433Do you mean that I went up before any one else? 36433 Do you mean to say she is_ not_ proud, Eva?"
36433Do you think I do not know where that gulden came from? 36433 Do you think it is a sin I ought to confess, Fritz?"
36433Do you think it is very wrong?
36433Doctor Luther who wrote those these s they are talking so much of?
36433Does Aunt Ursula know?
36433Does the lady know Chriemhild and Atlantis Cotta?
36433Does this satisfy her conscience?
36433Elsè,he said,"how long have those fires been burning in the streets?"
36433Eva,I whispered at last,"do you not think there are rather strange and unaccountable noises around us?
36433Even to me?
36433Has he not fought all our battles for us for years? 36433 Has no one ever tried?"
36433Have we not the Saviour?
36433Have you friends in Basel?
36433Have you sold many of these?
36433How can it be,I said one day to Fritz,"that all the world seems so utterly to misunderstand God?"
36433How can you ask such questions?
36433How did you like the convent, Eva?
36433How dost thou know that?
36433How is it,I said to Eva,"that Elsè or Thekla did not tell us of this?
36433If the ship itself,as Gottfried says,"is exposed to shipwreck, who, then, can secure the cargo?"
36433Is Dr. Luther much changed?
36433Is Martin Luther here?
36433Is he not a veteran, Heinz?
36433Is it then sin to call anything our own?
36433Is not God everywhere?
36433Is this book for sale?
36433Is this indeed what the Lord Christ is like?
36433Is your father anything else than a schoolmaster, Agnes?
36433It is impossible,she replied;"have we not the Holy Father''s own word?
36433Little Eva,I said,"what has become of your''Theologia Teutsch?''
36433Martin,I said,"do you not know me?"
36433Mother,I said,"do you think Aunt Agnes has been praying again for this?"
36433My dear child, what art thou?
36433O Lord, my God, where art thou? 36433 Or the emperor?"
36433Or the knights?
36433Or the prelates?
36433Or the princes?
36433Perhaps not,said Gottfried;"but the last enemy will be overcome at last, and who knows how soon?"
36433Repentance for me,she said,"would be to leave him, would it not?"
36433Share in what?
36433Since when?
36433Then he said,''How goes it at Basel? 36433 Then it was not because we teased her, and were noisy, she was taken away?
36433They say his life is blameless, do they not?
36433Think of the father and the children, Eva,I said;"If our mother and I should be seized next, what would they do?"
36433Until when?
36433Was it for learning?
36433Was it then for courage?
36433We said,--''Gladly would we do that, but what shall we call you, that he may understand the greeting?''
36433What are you thinking of, Elsè?
36433What did the knight say to you, Christopher?
36433What does that mean?
36433What does that mean?
36433What is all this talk about Dr. Luther and his these s?
36433What is it needful that a Christian should know for his salvation?
36433What is it, Cousin Elsè?
36433What is our sleep,he said,"but a kind of death?
36433What is the reason that God gives?
36433What is this?
36433What is your lading?
36433What is your name, friend, and where are you bound?
36433What moves him to it? 36433 What other books have you?"
36433What shall I do when my thoughts wander, as they always do in the long prayers?
36433What then,said Eva,"has been gained by his teaching and his work?"
36433What will the infection matter to me if he dies?
36433What would you do, Eva?
36433Where does that sentence come from, Eva?
36433Who are stricken?
36433Who did the deed, and what was burned?
36433Who recommended you to do that?
36433Who said such a thing of our mother?
36433Who was her grandfather?
36433Who, then, will venture to begin?
36433Why have you no altar?
36433Why not?
36433Why should Dr. Luther think it necessary to conclude with a declaration that he is no heretic?
36433Why should I be?
36433Why,he said,"should men be so inflamed against him?
36433With whom, then, had they fought?
36433You have never heard Dr. Luther preach?
36433You remember telling us of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian by the heathen emperor?
36433You think so? 36433 You will not forget us, sister?"
36433_ Does_ He not welcome you?
36433Again--"I believe in Jesus Christ,"& c."What does that mean?"
36433All seems to me clear and bright after the resurrection; but_ now_?
36433Am I bringing down blessings on those I love, or curses?"
36433Am I not even at times more burdened with it?
36433Am I not in it,--actually_ in_ it_ now_?
36433Am I resisting His higher calling in only obeying the humbler call of every- day duty?
36433And Fritz''s voice asked gently--"What does that mean?"
36433And I would also have asked her,"Dear St. Elizabeth, my patroness, what is it in heaven that makes you so happy there?"
36433And are not Eva and Fritz indeed our family saints and patrons?
36433And at Wittemberg, in happy homes, and in the convent, are not my beloved singing it too?
36433And at the end,"What does Amen mean?"
36433And can I doubt that he and his devout, affectionate little wife, who visits the poor and nurses the sick, love God and try to serve him?
36433And can we do nothing for her now?"
36433And did not St. Paul himself say, as Dr. Luther told us,''Sinners, of whom I am chief?''"
36433And do we not hear him preach once every Sunday?
36433And do you think I would leave him to bear his blighted life alone?"
36433And had God heard her?
36433And have we not a high grammar- school which Dr. Luther founded, and in which our dear father teaches Latin?
36433And if they are not pleased, would that be saint- like?
36433And if this might be so with future confessions, why not with all past ones?
36433And is not Eisleben Dr. Luther''s birth- place?
36433And on the father''s heart what child could say,"Make me as one of thy hired servants?"
36433And one asks,''What about, then?''
36433And shall not my fastings, vigils, disciplines, prayers be as effectual for their souls?
36433And shall we call him instead a heathen foreign name, that none of your kindred were ever known by?"
36433And then we inquired,"''Sir, can you inform us if Martin Luther is now at Wittemberg, or if not, where he is?''
36433And then, in Paradise, where love will no longer be in danger of becoming sin, may we not be together for ever and for ever?
36433And then, shall I regret that I abandoned the brief polluted joys of earth for the pure joys of eternity?
36433And then, suddenly we heard Dr. Luther''s voice behind us saying, in his ringing, inspiring tones,"Friends, what are you doing?
36433And then, what is the worth of confession?
36433And then, what_ are_ the highest places in heaven?
36433And was this the experience of one who is now a saint on the most glorious heights of heaven?
36433And we outside?
36433And what are these ecclesiastical benefits?
36433And what are those rules at the court of heaven?
36433And what have we gained by our pilgrimage?
36433And what is death itself but a night sleep?
36433And what lot can be so blessed as ours?
36433And what shall console us for that, when the presence of all that Christians most venerate is powerless to arrest it?
36433And what will Martin Luther''s be?
36433And what would have been the result?
36433And when it was asked,--"Who receives the holy sacrament worthily?"
36433And where in the New Testament do you find it forbidden?"
36433And wherefore?
36433And who could help welcoming little Eva?
36433And who has gained the victory there?
36433And who knows what beyond?
36433And why is not one vow as good as another?
36433And why should they excite so much attention?
36433And will God accept such a sacrifice as this?
36433And yet, am I so entirely free from care as I ought to be?
36433And yet, if so, why do not the monks preach of it?
36433And yet, what could even the wisest confessor do for me in such difficulties?
36433And, you learned men, did you never read the Scriptures,''Thou shalt honour thy father and thy mother?''
36433Another year all but closed-- a year of mingled storm and sunshine?
36433Are a few peaceable days to be purchased at the sacrifice of eternal truth?
36433Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?
36433Are there any keys on earth to_ lock_ them again, when once they have been opened?
36433Are these all your grievances, little Agnes?"
36433Are these fears God''s merciful preparations for some dreadful tidings about to reach us?
36433Are we indeed nearer heaven here?
36433Are we not all children, little children, in his sight?
36433Are you sure he will live, even now?"
36433Are you sure, Eva, it means_ he loves us_?"
36433Art thou dead?
36433Art thou poor?
36433Art thou rich?
36433As great as our burgomaster, or as Master Trebonius?
36433At length I said--"Eva, how old were you when Fritz became a monk?"
36433Because if he is more pitiful to sinners than all the saints, which of all the saints can be beloved of God as he is, the well- beloved Son?
36433Besides, if he had a vocation, what curse might not follow despising it?
36433Besides, what have I to say?
36433Beyond all treasures is thy grace;-- Oh, when wilt thou thy steps retrace And satisfy me with thy face, And make me wholly glad?
36433Bitterly I reproached myself; but what could I have done?
36433But are we to call our Eva, Ave?
36433But are you really not at all afraid?"
36433But benefits of what kind?
36433But can it be possible that any would ever feel at ease, and happy, so very near the Almighty?
36433But do_ you_?
36433But for me?
36433But hold out the hand of fellowship to those who betray any part of his Lords trust, he thinks,--how dare he?
36433But how can I be writing so much about my own tiny world, when all the world around me is agitated by such great fears and hopes?
36433But how can I murmur when my loving Elsè is spared to us?"
36433But how would she like the order in which places in heaven are assigned?
36433But how?
36433But in abolishing it, what regard had you for order and decency?
36433But is it not written that God gives this freely to those who believe on his Son?
36433But is it so?
36433But is not that the legacy of the Saviour to all who love him?
36433But oh, can it be possible that God would take me back, not after long years of penance, but_ now_, and_ here_, to his very heart?"
36433But on the other side of the grave he will not be lonely, will he?
36433But ought it to have been put down in the way it has been?
36433But were they not blasphemy?
36433But what becomes of sincerity of heart, of faith, of Christian love?
36433But when will that be to me?
36433But where am I to begin?
36433But who can assure me I am a true penitent?
36433But who can tell?
36433But who can tell?
36433But who is to teach our peasants now?
36433But why was all that was gentlest and noblest in him made to work towards this last dreadful step?
36433But you will not tell?
36433Can it be possible I am envious of little Eva-- dear, little, loving, orphan Eva?
36433Can it then be God''s intention that the growth of our spiritual life is only growing sensitiveness to pain?
36433Can it, indeed, be possible that God is pleased when we trust him,--pleased when we pray, simply because he loves us?
36433Can life ever be quite the same again?
36433Can sorrow only confer this gift of knowing where to find the hidden springs in the heart?
36433Can this be what God means?
36433Can you go and speak a few words of comfort to her?"
36433Could I have wished it?
36433Could I look up with confidence to God?
36433Could Mary even, the dear mother of our Lord, escape?
36433Could it be possible that the end of all my aspirations might after all be the monk''s frock?
36433Could it be possible that the truth of God was banished to the mountain fastnesses?
36433Could it be that such changes were passing on us also, and that we were failing to observe them?
36433Dare I for her sake?--dare I still more for my own?
36433Did I indeed confess completely even to the Vicar- General?
36433Did not a sword pierce thine, O mournful mother of consolations?
36433Did not my vow save precious lives?
36433Did not one of them relent, and take pity on his mother and his father?
36433Did not she also live too often as if under a curse?
36433Did not the Lamb of God, dying for us on the cross, bear our sins there, and blot them out?
36433Did not the convent through her become a home or a way to the Eternal Home to many?
36433Did you see their Bambino last Christmas?
36433Do all monks have such a conflict?
36433Do not acts of violence and words of mockery necessarily make more noise in the world than prayers?
36433Do the ecclesiastical indulgences save men from disease, and sorrow, and death?
36433Do you think God said it to your father from heaven, in a vision or a dream, as he speaks to the saints?"
36433Do you think it is wrong?"
36433Do you think our hearts never throbbed high with hope, and that we never fought with dragons?
36433Do you think that is why God lets us be so poor ourselves so long, and never seems to hear our prayers?"
36433Do you think the hungry delight in the eyes of those boys was occasioned by their every- day, ordinary fare?
36433Do you think you will ever persuade me you have grown thin by eating sausages and cakes and wonderful holiday puddings every day of your life?
36433Does Fritz, then, also feel so sinful and so perplexed how to please God?
36433Does not God our heavenly Father do even so with us?
36433Does not the scum necessarily rise to the surface?
36433Dost thou indeed teach the Catechism and the creed?
36433Elizabeth?"
36433Elsè, my child, what have I done?
36433Eva, dear child,"she added,"is that what is meant?"
36433Except a few tracts of Dr. Luther''s, what is there that they could understand?
36433For He also, who gave those treasures to the Pope, is He not everywhere, and could He not give them freely to us direct?
36433For had not my own good, pure, pious mother doubts and scruples almost as bitter?
36433For have not the brightest been wrought by the touch of the Life himself?
36433For he says,''Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
36433For if monastic life is a delusion, to what have I sacrificed hopes which were so absorbing, and might have been so pure?
36433For if, by our labours and afflictions, we could attain quiet of conscience, why did he die?
36433For my little life what does it matter?
36433For was not I a guilty creature, and were not the devils indeed too really around me?--and what was to prevent their possessing me?
36433For what can be more simple than to confide in one worthy of confidence?
36433Friend, where is it?''
36433From the temporal consequences of sin?
36433From what part of Switzerland?"
36433God might have called him away from earth altogether when he lay smitten with the plague, and shall I grudge him to the cloister?
36433Had I not promised to do so long since, through my godsponsers, at my baptism?
36433Had Martin Luther such thoughts in this very cell?
36433Had she not been asking Him to make Fritz a monk?
36433Had she then, indeed, all these years been praying that our happiness should be ruined and our home desolated?
36433Has Brother Martin attained this repose yet?
36433Has all the suffering been fruitless, unnecessary pain?
36433Has he not been trying to teach me his religion all my life?
36433Has he passed through conflicts such as mine in the forest on that terrible night?
36433Has penance in itself no curative effect, that we can be healed of our sins by escaping as well as by performing it?
36433Has there not also been a kind of fatal spell on all your father''s inventions?
36433Have I indeed, like St. Christopher, found my bank of the river, where I can serve my Saviour by helping all the pilgrims I can?
36433Have I lingered in the world so long that my heart can never more be torn from it?
36433Have I not heard such words half a century since in Bohemia?
36433Have I wandered away wilful and deluded from the lot of blessing God had appointed me, since that terrible time of the plague, at Eisenach?
36433Have all these been wasted years?
36433Have it supposed that he approves of the coarse and violent invectives of the Saxon monk, or the daring schemes of the adventurous knight?
36433Have not many of the evil things he attacked been removed?
36433Have not the very things themselves, in their possession, become cares?
36433Have these years then been lost?
36433Have you not yet seen it?''
36433He does not think as we in the world so often must,"Is God leading me, or the devil?
36433He gives twigs to the ants, and grain to the birds, and makes the trees their palaces, and teaches them to sing; and will He not care for you?"
36433He is all to the children and our parents that he ever was, and why should I expect more?
36433He is bold enough to venture anything; and since he has done so much good to Fritz, and to you, and to me, why not to the whole Church?"
36433He is sure they will all love me; but how can I tell?
36433He will not fail them; but who can say what thorny paths their feet may have to tread?
36433His voice lowered when he saw her, and he said,--"This is no burgher maiden, surely?
36433How can I believe that?
36433How can I then do otherwise than rejoice?
36433How can that be?
36433How can we understand a labyrinth until we are through it?
36433How can you think I can find room for your Sardanapaluses and Sybarites?
36433How do I know what deeper and better thoughts lie hidden under that veil of levity?
36433How is it possible for me_ not_ to love him?
36433How should he?
36433How will it be with the next-- with the man that is proclaiming this in the face of the world now?
36433How, then, can we say anything but that God is an abyss of endless, unfathomable love?"
36433I am but a poor girl of seventeen, and how can I expect to understand everything?
36433I exclaimed,"you surely do not pray that you may die?"
36433I have doubted long about them and about everything; how could I dare to think a few proscribed men right against the whole Church?
36433I only seemed to hear His voice calling me; and what could I do but go?
36433I said,"Am I not to say,_ My_ mother,_ my_ father,_ my_ Fritz?
36433I said,"_ Whose_ sister, Aunt Agnes?
36433I said,"and yours?"
36433I said;"and Eisleben really as beautiful in its way as the Thuringian forest, and as wise as Wittemberg?"
36433I still instruct the novices; but sometimes the dreary question comes to me--"For_ what_ am I instructing them?"
36433I suggested,"would it not be better to find that out here than there?"
36433I suppose Brother Martin had"the testimony of the Holy Ghost in his heart;"but who shall give that to me?
36433I suppose it is not; but if not, on whose authority?
36433I think I might comfort her; for who can tell what two months in a Dominican prison may have done for him?
36433I trembled very much, for I thought-- If the servants are so haughty, what will the master be?
36433I wonder if it can be true that strange creatures haunt the forests?"
36433I wonder who will do it?
36433I wonder, if his fame should indeed spread as we anticipate, if it will be the same one day with all Germany?
36433I would have said,"Dear St. Elizabeth, tell me what it is that makes you a saint?
36433If I brought the curse on my people by my sin, was not my obedience accepted?
36433If I employ force, what do I gain?
36433If I had, would not his verdict have been different?
36433If a look can kill, what can save?
36433If a minute attention to the rules of an order such as this of St. Augustine, who can be sure of having never failed in this?
36433If faith is so simple, and salvation so free, why all those orders, rules, pilgrimages, penances?
36433If he sends the dark days, will he not also give us a lamp for our feet through them?"
36433If it were not so, how could the angels be so much with us and yet with God?"
36433If perfect purity of heart and life, who can lay claim to that?
36433If property is sin, then why is stealing sin?
36433If the dead could thus return, would they feel anything of this?
36433If the flesh is so strong, what will the spirit be?"
36433If they are pleased, what is the use of struggling so much to climb a little higher?
36433If you felt it would be for_ his_ good, you would do anything, at any cost to yourself, would you not?"
36433In the evening I said to her--"O Eva, how can you bear to sing the hymns Fritz loved so dearly?
36433Indeed, is not one of our sons-- our good and sober- minded Pollux-- still in the old Church?
36433Indulgences from what?
36433Is Aunt Agnes, then, more like God than our mother?
36433Is Erasmus of Rotterdam still there, and what is he doing?"
36433Is he not the representative and oracle of God on earth?
36433Is he, indeed, as Dr. Luther says, ready to listen to our feeblest cry, ready to forgive us, and to help us?
36433Is it an echo of the voices of the little ones she so dearly loves, and a reflection of the sunshine in their eyes?
36433Is it for ever?
36433Is it not this which makes even Martin Luther the teacher of our nation?
36433Is it not this which qualifies weak and sinful men to be preachers of the gospel instead of angels from heaven?
36433Is it not_ because_?
36433Is it then, indeed, thus we must think of God?
36433Is it true, indeed, that peasants, women, and sick people could come straight to the Lord himself?
36433Is it with that look God will meet us, with that kind of voice he will speak to us?
36433Is it, then, from the eternal consequences of sin?
36433Is it, then, too late?
36433Is not Friedrich a good, honest name, which hundreds of your ancestors have borne?
36433Is not money what_ we_ make it?
36433Is not my yoke the yoke of Christ?
36433Is not the Bible in every home?
36433Is there a word of reproach or remonstrance in her letter?
36433Is there no pleasure to the obscure and ignorant monks in thus humbling one who was so lately so far above them?
36433Is there not one instance of such as I being saved?"
36433Is this true growth?--or is it that monstrous development of one faculty at the expense of others, which is deformity or disease?
36433It is all addressed to the heart; and who can make the heart right?
36433Know you what, the devil thinks when he sees people employ violence in disseminating the gospel among men?
36433Luther?"
36433Luther?"
36433May Fritz come too?"
36433May I ask your name, fair Fraülein?"
36433May not God''s kingdom be much larger than some think at Rome?
36433Might he not even yet be restored to us?
36433Moral?
36433Mother,"he continued,"why does Dr. Luther speak so of the Swiss?"
36433My mother''s eyes are dimmed with many cares; is it not that very worn and faded brow that makes her sacred to me?
36433No doubt they also had their perplexities, and wondered why the wicked triumph, and sighed to God,"How long, O Lord, how long?"
36433O God, my God, dost thou not hear me?
36433O God,"he sighed,"must the good perish with the evil?"
36433Oh, mother, do you think it was all nonsense in me?"
36433On what field will he win his laurels?
36433Once more, then, the world opens before me; but I do not hope( and why should I wish?)
36433One hour I have sat before this question; and whither has my heart wandered?
36433Only last Sunday, did not Father Boniface say half the mischief in the world had been done by women, from Eve to Helen and Cleopatra?"
36433Only, if the Pope has such inestimable treasures at his disposal, why could he not always give them"freely to the poor,"always and everywhere?
36433Or are the Zwickau prophets right after all, and is it the resurrection?"
36433Or to Christ?
36433Other parents often decide these matters for their children, but thy mother and I wish to leave the matter to thee.--Couldst thou be his wife?"
36433Ought I to love every one the same because all are equally God''s?
36433Pardon?
36433Peace?
36433Precious as Dr. Luther''s own words are, what are they at a time like this, compared with the word of God he has unveiled to us?
36433Said Offerus aloud to his comrades,"What is this?
36433Shall I venture to send this end of Eva''s sentence to her?
36433She awoke quite collected and calm, and then she said quietly--"Where is the mother?"
36433She is striving in her inmost soul after an ideal, which, could she reach it, what would she be?
36433Shut up here, away from every one, how can we show him that we love him?"
36433Some indeed complain of her being too economical; but what would become of Dr. Luther and his family if she were as reckless in giving as he is?
36433Spiritual?
36433Such truths are indeed worth battling for; but who, save the devil, would war against them?
36433TUNNENBERG,_ May_, 1521 Is the world really the same?
36433The heart with which we love each other and with which we love God, is it not the same?
36433The holy angels will have tender names for him there, will they not?"
36433The question took me by surprise, and I could only say,--"Can it be possible he thinks of me?"
36433The silence of the grave, or only of some friendly refuge?
36433The very heaven and earth picture it to us, for does not the sky embrace the green earth as its bride?
36433Then Fritz desired to know in what way his cousins, the Gersdorfs of this generation, are to distinguish themselves?
36433Then how will the saints feel who do_ not_ get the highest places?
36433Then if all our natural affections are to die in us, what is to live in us?
36433Then what becomes of my hopes of Paradise, or of acquiring merits which may aid others?
36433Then, how difficult to separate the two?
36433There was so much in his books that was good, and must they be all burned for the little evil that was mixed with the good?
36433They appear scarcely even quite to have decided St. Christopher''s question,"Which is the_ strongest_, that I may worship him?"
36433To men with whom eloquence means elaborate fancies, decorating corruption or veiling emptiness, what could St. Paul seem but a"babbler?"
36433To monks no doubt it may be so; for what could they do with it?
36433To whom are they given?
36433Was he indeed to be spoken to by all, and He such a great Lord?"
36433Was he not always kept off from common people by a band of priests and saints?
36433Was it because you left your little children, that God loves you so much?
36433Was it so to Martin Luther?
36433Was it, like Aunt Agnes, to get a higher place in heaven?
36433Was my father, then, a Hussite?
36433Was not she married, and was not he christened in church?
36433Was the fatal spell, which my mother feared was binding us, after all nothing else than Aunt Agnes''s terrible prayers?
36433Was there really ever a spring like this, when the tide of life seems overflowing and bubbling up in leaf- buds, flowers, and song, and streams?
36433Was this the estimate my father was held in in the world-- he, the noblest man in it, who was fit to be the Elector or the Emperor?
36433Was this what people meant by paying compliments?
36433Were Martin Luther''s years in the convent of Erfurt lost?
36433Were not the words literally fulfilled; and while many still fell around us, was one afterwards stricken in my home?
36433What advantage, then, has the New Testament over the old?
36433What am I to do?"
36433What can I do?"
36433What can it be, then, that makes his life such a failure?
36433What chief could lead an army on to battle by letters?
36433What confession can retrace the flood of bitter thoughts which have rushed over me in this one hour?
36433What did you think of him, Agnes?"
36433What does he give?
36433What fruit is there in this little world, around us at Eisleben, of whose heart we know something?"
36433What have you in your pack?"
36433What is a chronicle?
36433What is the use of unfolding perplexities to each other, which it seems no intellect on earth can solve?
36433What jest is the Prince making now?"
36433What joys are in heaven?
36433What kind of great man will Martin Luther be, I wonder?
36433What more could be needed to make a man of his power a great preacher?
36433What pleasure will there be in that?"
36433What priest on earth can assure me I have ever confessed fully?
36433What shall I say?
36433What should you do then?"
36433What sure hope then could I ever have of pardon or remission of sins?
36433What then are penance and purgatory?
36433What then remains, which the indulgences can deliver from?
36433What then would become of father and mother, dear Elsè, and the little ones?
36433What then?
36433What voice of priest or monk, the holiest on earth, could ever assure me I had been honest with myself?
36433What will be the end of this chaos?
36433What will happen next?"
36433What will it be?
36433What would Elsè or our mother think, who believe there is nothing but accident or the blindness of mankind between us and greatness?
36433What would he do there?
36433What, then, is the flesh?
36433When shall I efface from my memory the polluting words and works I have seen and heard at Rome?
36433Where did duty end, and ambition and pride begin?
36433While God wills we should stay here, and is with us, is it not home- like enough for us?
36433Who can say what people his life will bless, what sea it will reach, and through what perils?
36433Who in all the universe was on my side?
36433Who or what has thrown this shadow on so many homes?
36433Who stirs the heart of Germany-- of nobles, peasants, princes, women, children-- as he does with his noble, faithful words?"
36433Who that knows the interior of many convents dares to say they are holier than homes?
36433Who will ever keep before us as he does the"Our Father,"which makes all the rest of the Lord''s Prayer and all prayer possible and helpful?
36433Why did he suffer so?
36433Why does Dr. Luther often speak as if nothing had been done?"
36433Why does not some one think of it?
36433Why should Fritz be more to me than to any one else?
36433Why should I flee?
36433Why should our dear, gentle mother, have such sad, self- reproachful thoughts, and feel as if she and our family were under a curse?
36433Why wert thou then so displeased, and perhaps art not reconciled yet?
36433Why, then, are so many of the religious people I know of a sad countenance, as if they were bond- servants toiling for a hard master?
36433Why, then, does this hopeless feeling creep over me when I think of him?
36433Why, then, should there not be little dogs in the new earth, whose skin might be fair as gold, and their hair as bright as precious stones?"
36433Will every one in heaven be always struggling for the high places?
36433Will he not despise me, like the holy sisterhood?"
36433Will the greatest, then,_ not_ give up to the little ones in heaven?
36433Will there be dogs in the other world?"
36433Will there indeed be such a veil, an impenetrable barrier, between us and him at the judgment- day?
36433Will they be laurels or palms?
36433Will they be pleased or disappointed?
36433Will, then, his voice be as powerful to recall and reorganize as it was to urge forward?
36433With such a father and mother on earth, and such a Father in heaven, and with Heinz, how can I ever thank our God enough?
36433Would it live if she gave it first meat and wine?
36433Would they recognize Cousin Eva in the grave, quiet woman of twenty- two I have become?
36433Yet how can I dare to say this?
36433Yet oh, couldst not thou, even thou, sweet mother, have reminded him of the mother he has left to battle on alone?
36433Yet, it was so happy to be Fritz''s only friend; and why should a little stranger child steal my precious twilight- hour from me?
36433Yet, why should I perplex myself about this?
36433You good Augustinians do not like the Black Friars to have all the profit; is that it?"
36433_ Turn back_, draw back, I will_ never_, although all the devils were to drive me, or all the world entice me, but_ look_ back, who can help that?
36433_ Yet!_ do I say?
36433and am I not distributing, among thirsty and enslaved men, the water of life and the truth which sets the heart free?
36433and did we not pay a whole golden florin?
36433and have I not seen the lips which spoke them silenced in flames and blood?
36433and if my Atlantis is in Paradise instead of beyond the ocean, does that make so much difference?
36433and is not Fritz separated from us for ever?
36433and to whom?
36433and what can be greater than everlasting life?
36433and who am I that I should have such dreams?
36433before all the holy men, and doctors, and the people in authority?
36433do this for me?"
36433do you say?
36433he replied quickly;"in the excommunication of Luther?
36433how can I part with thee?"
36433if the whole land will say exultingly by- and- by--_our_ Martin Luther?
36433if you had both known this, need you have left us to go and serve God so far away?
36433or are they the mere natural enfeebling of the power to hope as one grows older?
36433or in the wild projects of Hutten?
36433or, perhaps, to have the right to be severe, as she is with us?
36433said Eva;"and would not that be better?"
36433said Satan, softly;"do you not know that he who in his form as a servant is the son of Mary, now exercises great power?"
36433said a soldier, accosting him rather contemptuously at a halting- place;"how will you accomplish that?"
36433said our father,"what does this mean?"
36433she asked;"Even for me?
36433she said;"and has He not loved the world?"
36433thou who art a mother, and didst bend over a cradle, and hadst a little lowly home at Nazareth once?
36433what scope is there for these here?
36433what?
36433when all shall"by love serve one another?"
36433where is that spirit now, so familiar to us and so dear, and now so utterly separated?
36433who is to tell me now what to do?"