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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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inous theywere, too, because largely identical with changes madein Bohemia under Hussite influence, thus seeming topresage the same revolution and bloodshed as haddevastated that kingdom. Early in December, while the movement was still inits incipiency, the exiled Luther made a hurried andsecret visit to Wittenberg to see what was going on.He found the situation less serious than he had feared,writing Spalatin, Everything I see and hear greatlypleases me. May the Lord strengthen those who wishus well. The students, he saw, were chiefly respon-sible for the riots, and he regarded all the troubles aslargely the result of a temporary excitement whichwould soon spend itself. But he thought it worth while, as he informed Spala-tin, because of the many reports of the wide-spreadroughness of his followers, to write a vigorous tractupon his return to the Wartburg, warning them againstuproar and violence. All changes in the existing system,he insisted, must be made in an orderly fashion and by
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From an old prii POPE HADRIAN VI THE CONFLICT WITH RADICALISM 231 the civil authorities, not by private individuals. Up-roar, he maintained, is always bad, and out of evilonly evil comes. The devil was trying to discredit thenew movement by inciting its adherents to such con-duct. As for himself, Luther declared, he would sup-port the side attacked, however bad it might be, ratherthan those who attacked it, however good their cause.Only with the word was the work of reformation tobe accomplished. As the evils of the old system wereexposed, they would disappear of themselves. Payno more money, he exclaimed, for bulls, candles,bells, pictures, churches, but declare that the Christianlife consists in faith and love, and keep doing it fortwo years, and you will see what happens to pope,bishop, cardinal, priest, monk, nun, bells, steeples,masses, vigils, cowl, cap, shaven poll, rules, statutes,and the whole swarm and rabble of the popes govern-ment. They will vanish like smoke. Late in Dec

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