Page 51 … He created them) ought to have sense enough to know that. On the accusing pages of history. As though all that vast wealth had been but the worthless scrapings of the streets. The wealth we can create again, but the dead in their graves will never come back again. I will not stand by, consenting by silence. I will not see my America made faithless to her word and fake to her pledges. She should make protest against the smirching of her honor. Page 52 To do at Rome as the Romans do {German Writing} They are a gang of British lickspittles. Regarded as an Anti-Semite in high-brow language, or in low-brow language, a Jew - baiter {German Writing} Anti Semitic They undeify the Savior, silence the Holy Spirit, frighten away the atonement, make Satan and Satanic agency a visionary illusion, and set up a morality of flesh and blood as the basis of the soul's salvation. {German Writing} "The soul is where it loveth, not where it liveth." Erasmus Page 53 They have the stamp of worldliness upon them. A people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers. Nations have felt the chastening rod. We must work with Pauline faithfulness and diligence and with Pentecostal fervor. Clear as pea-soup, is it not? Man-supported claims. God-given power. It has my unqualified approbation. The cut-throats of Europe. Page 54 Honor to Truth. The meaning of those words stands out with deadly clarity. Such a sin ought to appall every Christian. A rebellion and gainsaying generation. It will make our blood curdle. He gave an impromptive address. Like priest, like people. He thus sought to engage in despicable double-dealing. They are not crocodile tears. Synodus synodare, {German Writing} "They say what they say, let'em say." {German Writing} Page 55 To some Luther appears as a prophet of God, to others as a changeling of Satan. {German Writing} They were constructing their Cloudcucoovilles = {German Writing}. Cloudland, Utopia. {German Writing}. This caused a revulsion of feeling both in the north and in the south. Resounding catch phrases. A personality still quite unclarified. The broader strata of the cultured world. They call Luther the plebeian, the great rustic whose merital horizon is bounded by the space taken… Page 56 … up by his hobnailed shoes. Over against such vaunted supermen. An old adage has it that love is blind while the eye of hatred is keen. With equal justice it might be affirmed that hatred makes people blind and the eye of love sees sharply. But in reality there is a blind love and a blind hatred. gospelless heretic venal-henchman of the princes vacillating turncoat = {German Writing} Driving out Baal with Beelzebub. To pass judgement on the past. Well-merited retirement. He was regarded as a blood-red, fanatical revolutionary. Page 57 small-minded reactionary recluse ascetics Stepchildren of Dame Fortune. "Here I stand, I cannot hold otherwise, God help me, Amen." In the Catholic camp the fable was spread. If Luther had been close-mouthed as Calvin, as reserved and careful and so completely master of all his gestures and moods as Loyola. He is not minded to follow them through thick and thin. He was at the point of discarding the cowl - monk's hood. Excessive privileges of the mendicant orders {German Writing}. Page 58 Who errs once is not worthy of credence, even if he speaks the truth. Errors and contradictions in chronology and fact in the reminiscences of the aging Luther. That would be overshooting the mark altogether. His more coarse-grained comrades in the monastery. As time wore on he was pushed ever farther from the beaten path of the old faith, and with increasing energy urged him to give to the religious problem that altogether personal formulation by which unbeknown to himself, he already stepped outside of the limits of the Catholic system. highly important Page 59 He is now said to have Rolchevislic {sp??} leanings . The king in his speech proroguing Parliament. They place wreaths in wordless praise. inaugural sermon All within him was a tremble. It is a life-and-death case, and the church must defend her youth. The devil comes with another bait with which to coax our children into hell. an unbiased investigation But there is a far cry between a claim and a demonstration. Page 60 There are only two possible relations between man and man. The one is that of victor and victim and the other is that of brother and brother. Nature teaches nothing but the contest between victor and victim. It is the revelation of God in Christ alone which teaches us the relation of brother and brother. Good Samaritanism has never been learned from anyone but from the good Samaritan himself. complete verification an adroit trick Not worth a copper as testimony. They masquerade under the guise of religion. work imaginary cures of real diseases and real cures of imaginary ones. Page 61 Movieitis. This is a new disease that has of late years become seriously epidemic and extremely dangerous. He addressed the assembly on the basis of 1 Cor. 2,9. "All glory be to God!" was the keynote of all addresses. 45 percent Mormons and the rest the usual sprinkling which we find in every larger city of our country. Battling with difficulties altogether unknown in other fields. The hearts were tuned to the highest pitch of exultation and joy. The grossest spiritual darkness of Mormonism. replete with information Page 62 The spiritistic craze is not yet abating. To inaugurate a vigorous campaign. To create sentiment for a warless world. Create antiwar sentiment. They are laboring under a keen delusion. Human nature as such cannot stand peace and prosperity for any great length of time; it will go to the bad. The downfall of many a nation, probably of the most, has been their own prosperity as an open door to godlessness and wickedness. Wars are great purifying conflagrations which burn up some of the accumulated dross of the world. Gainful employment. Page 63 We need people who have Jesus Christ in the heart. [Romans 8:9][Galatians 4:6] That alone will keep men from going to the devil. Peace and prosperity will not do it. A strong seeking after material prosperity, as we find it in our country, is very close kin to the love of money, of which the apostle says that is the root of all evil. [1 Timothy 6:10] Some missionaries from America and England contaminate China with a "dishwater" brand of Christianity. Sham union begotten in the sin of contempt for the trash. The union bee buzzes in many secretarial bonnets its honey sweet song. That does not mean that we are to stuff our forms of belief down the throats of our brethren or impose… Page 64 … them arbitrarily on the infant native churches of heathen lands. a supereminent pastor He was the born leader. The rude fist of "Mr. Everyman," that is the mob, in revolutionary excitement. An overturning of things. a pious dream He roundly answered in the affirmative. He mustered the necessary courage. It created an immense stir. They acted in self-arrogated authority. In direct contravention of the commands of. Page 65 The doubtless thought one a stickler {German Writing}. Does not higher criticism rule in a great number of seminaries? We must meet the present situation courageously. Our children should not be made shock absorbers for our bitter feelings and ill-humor. Idleness is the devil's most effective tool and the door to everything that is indecent. It is easier to teach by example than by precepts, and therefore, the parents' examples, good or evil, are guideposts that either direct or misdirect. Do not say to your child: "Go to church," but rather "Come to church." Not "Read the Bible," but, "Let us read the Good Book." As a pastor avoid mere imitation. Be yourself. A coat which looks… Page 66 … all right on a six-footer would be ridiculous on a man who is only half his size. You are an individual; preserve your individuality. The German proverb says: "{German Writing} ," and there is much truth in it, "Everyone speaks according to his lights." only half-successful Luther is called a cross ignoramus. This is a rather turbid fountain from which no one who is accustomed to the fresh water of genuine tradition can drink without reluctance. Luther mauls his adversaries with a flaigl like an uncouth peasant, without mercy and without tiring. When his ire is up he is, as it seems, a "smut" without equal. He plays with his adversary in a bearish… Page 67 … humor like a wild and bellicose giant of the old sagas, while at the same time he is dealing out blows right and left with his peasant ax like a rude woodcutter. Who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long. Dictum falsely attributed to Luther. - They permit the devil to befool them. slow-tongued Moses As soon as a malicious witticism pops into his mind, for at bottom he is a skeptic, scoffer and rhetorician. The saints toppled from their thrones, purgatory sank into the abyss, the god of Plato and Plotinus became silent. He gave light and air once more to religion which threatened to die of suffocation under the weight of its ancient trappings. Page 68 Here again it becomes manifest that Luther's spirit is the battleground of two ages. God's Word and Luther's doctrine pure shall to eternity endure. Luther's language because of its almost wonderful purity and powerful influence must be regarded as the very pith and marrow of the new High German language deposit, in which to the present day there has been very little variation, and then only at the expense of its power and expressiveness. The new High German can indeed be termed the Protestant dialect, whose freedom breathing nature has long since, unknown to themselves, conquered poets and authors of Catholic faith. one-sided over-estimation Page 69 Well-known and blunt answer. The dividing wall between sound historical Lutheranism and all branches of the Reformed Church. Through the strength of his will and his unflagging energy he invariably rose above his sickness, and until his death he remained the victor in a fight the successful termination of which demanded the greatest possible mental resistance. A Latin formula for those unversed in German. Let us bury that which has happened on both sides and weigh it down with a huge stone. Parliament was prorogued last week until January 30 subject to an earlier summoning if political exigencies should demand it. Page 70 {German Writing} This is only one of the plague-spots of Europe. The American eagle is too wise a bird to be hypnotized by the gaze of the British sea serpent and the French cobra: He who banquets with the serpent's brood, does so at his peril. The most detestable embodiment of the unctuous hypocrite. He now appears in the role of the deliberate malefactor. Wearing the mask of the pacifist, he carried murder in his heart. In His abounding grace. Page 71 He sent America's youth to the shambles of Europe. The solitude of Wilson is not the solitude of the recluse, but of the leper. This would be grist for his mill. This was said to lend verisimilitude to the fiction. Did not this stir his long-callused soul? How shattered the utopian hope! A shouting testimonial, that the Work of the Lord is right. The self-righteous see and know nothing but the tinsel and dissipation of Christmas. divine effulgence Page 72 Citizens of other strains of blood. That we shall not be gulled by honeyed words into a sense of false security and lay aside our arms while they are needed to preserve our liberties. It was an act of abasement fit to make his Guelf {sp??} ancestors turn in their graves. He abandoned his trip to Dollarica. He defended his views in open debates. They conspired to heckle him. (hatchel) {German Writing} - Megalomania {German Writing} Page 73 {German Writing} The happiest time in all the year is Christmas. {German Writing} Page 74 {German Writing} Page 75 {German Writing} |