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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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ion of legal adviser to the counts ofMansfeld. His own advance in life gave him a naturaldesire to see his eldest son rise still higher in the socialscale. Hans was no common miner, and Martin wasno common boy. The sons promise and the fathershopes went hand in hand. After the not uncommon fashion of the day, he car-ried little with him to Magdeburg beyond his parentsblessing. Both there and in Eisenach, where he wassent a year later, he begged and sang his way to foodand schooling. In Eisenach he sang his way to morethan both—the love and care of a womans heart. Hisbeautiful eyes and voice first won the attention of FrauCotta, and she took him into her own home. Through-out his life both friends and foes always noticed hiseyes—dark and deep, as if harboring wonderful andmysterious thoughts. And his voice in song and speechalike possessed a quality to magnetize and charm. Itis little enough we know of the pretty idyl of his lifein the well-to-do Cotta family. Here he had his first
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HOUSE AT EISLEBEN SHOWN AS LUTHERS BIRTHPLACE. I I W IS PARTLY DESTROYED BY FIRE AND REBUILT LATE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH n taste of culture and refinement and of the gentlergraces of life. From his foster-mother he learned thebeautiful proverb, On earth no dearer thing thanwomans love to whom t is given to possess, and heused often to repeat it in later years as a memento ofhis happy Eisenach days. The influence of Martins new environment was life-long. His intimate friendship with gentlefolk servedto temper such roughness and uncouthness as hebrought from the peasants home and the mining town,and fitted him for association with the greater world.As a man he always showed extraordinary ease andfreedom in dealing with men of all classes. This wascertainly due at least in part to these formative years.In Eisenach, too, he found school and teachers to hisliking. Trebonius, the principal, can have been nocommon pedagogue. Upon entering the presence ofhis classes he a

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