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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the dust and must enduregreatly. And because they have nothing to boast aboutor pride themselves upon, they trust God, control them-selves, and keep still. The poor fear God, thereforeHe gives them good heads that they may study, becomeeducated and intelligent, and be able to assist princes,kings, and emperors with their wisdom. Luthers family was not of the lowest class. Forgenerations his ancestors had owned their house andfarm in the village of Mohra on the western side ofthe Thuringian hills. There are still Luthers in thesame tiny hamlet, changed perhaps as little as the placeitself. Common custom, admirably careful of thosemost needing care, made the youngest child heirof the ancestral home, and Hans Luther, an older .son,after marrying Margarethe Ziegler, a maiden of goodfamily from the neighboring town of Eisenach, wentout to seek his fortune in the larger world. Sign ofcharacter that, and promise of more heroic venture inhis first-born. It does not need the wilds of a new-
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From the painting by Lucas Cranach in the Wartburg, EisensM \RTIX LUTHERS FATHER BOYHOOD AND YOUTH 5 found land and leagues of untracked forest to makethe pioneer. From Mohra to Eisleben, the principaltown in the county of Mansfeld, where Hans andMargarethe first tried their fate, was only a scant four-score miles, but it was the cast of the die. A newhome and a new life were theirs at once. The Mohraboy became the founder of a new branch of his housein a new land, and the farmers son became a miner.It was a rich and beautiful country. Whom the Lordloves He gives a home in the county of Mansfeld,runs an old proverb, and what was more to the pointin the eyes of Hans, mining was a prosperous industryin the copper-veined hills of the eastern Harz. In Eisleben the first child was born on the night ofthe tenth of November, 1483. He was baptized thenext day and named Martin in honor of the saintwhose feast it was. Honor enough for any saint, andhonor enough it might seem for any town. But w

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