| Show SKETCH OF LUTHER A coarse rugged ragged plebeian face ft it was waa with great c as of cheek botes boies a wild amount of passionate energy and appetite butir butin but in hla hia dark eyes were floods of sorrow and deeff deepest st melancholy sweetness and mystery were all au there often did they beem seem Been to meet in luther the ver very same opposite poles in mans character Y H he e for whom ritchie bad said that ills his words were half battles batties be he when be he first firs t began to preach suffered unheard agony ohi obar obi dr Stan baid eaid lie he to the argeneral vic of his order or derI derl 1 I shall diefin three months indeed I 1 cannot do it 9 dr stan pi eitz eltz z a wise and considerate man said upon this well weil sir martin it you must die yord yort must but remember that they need good leads heads up yonder too so preach man preach and then live er die as it hap bap happens lappens pens pers so luther preached and lived and he became indeed one great whirlwind of ene energy gy to work without resting in this world and also aso aro before he he died he wrote very many books books in which the true man appeared for III in the ille midst of all they denounced and cursed what touches of tender tenderness neve lav lay look at the table talk for example we see in it a little bird having alighted on the bough of a pear tree that grew in luthers Luther 3 girden luther looked upon it and said that little bird how it covers its ita win wings s and will sleep there so still and fearless though over it are the infinite star starry ry spaces and the great blue depths 0 of immensity yet it fears not it is at nome home the god that made it too is there the same gentle spirit of lyrical admiration is in the other I 1 passages of his book coming home from leipsic in the autumnal season be he breaks forth into living wonder at the fields of corn s how row it stands there he says erect on the he i beautiful taper stein stem and bending bendin gits its beautiful golden goiden head bead with bread in it the bread of 1 man sent to him another year 21 such thoughts though is as these are arc as little windows throy which biad we gaze into the int bior of the depths of 0 martin Luth kutheis Lu theis ells eils soul and bee eee visible across its tempests and clouds clouda a whole heaven of or light and love ile he might ha hate haie e painted be he m might g have sung could have b been een beautiful 1 like ilke raphael and great like michael angelo carlyle |
