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Title: Martin Luther, the man and his work
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, 1861-1933
Subjects: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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d behind, despite the protests of colleagues andfriends, and ministered to the people more activelythan ever. In 1527 he did manful labor in the midstof the worst epidemic experienced during that genera-tion, and in the summer of 1535, when the rumor gotabroad that the pest was raging in Wittenberg, hewrote the elector in the following humorous vein: Your Graces chancellor, Dr. Briick, has told me ofyour Graces kind invitation, if the plague should be-come bad here. I thank your Grace sincerely for yourthoughtful proposal, and will let you know if things getserious. But the bailiff Hans Metzsch is my trusty wea-thercock. He has a regular vultures scent for the pesti-lence, and would smell it if it were five cubits underground. While he remains in town I cannot believe thepest is here. It is true one or two houses have had ill-ness, but the air is not yet poisoned, for there have beenno deaths and no new cases since Tuesday. However, asthe dog-days are at hand and the young fellows are
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MARTIN LUTHERPainted in the year he died by Lucas Cranach THE END AND AFTER 371 frightened, I have given them a holiday to quiet theirfears until we see what is to happen. I notice they arepleased enough over such alarms, for some of them catchboils from their school bags, some the colic from theirbooks, some the scurvy from their pens, and some thegout from their papers. Others have found their inkmoldy, or have devoured their mothers letters and caughthomesickness from them. There may be more of thiskind of weakness than I can say. No doubt there is dan-ger, if parents and magistrates dont come to the rescuewith every possible remedy, of a high rate of mortalityfrom such diseases, until we shall have no preachers, pas-tors, or teachers, but only hogs and dogs, which is whatthe papists are industriously working for. About the same time he wrote a Torgau friend: I wish my letter might at least reach Torgau, for yourcity is so terribly afraid of us Wittenbergers. Your fear,indeed, is w

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