Show the he name Is S F ca a BY F FELIX E ll 11 x a and in d ELMO E lm SCOTT WATSON wedgwood ware IF F YOU are the owner of a prized piece of wedgwood W ware are you probably know that its named for josiah wedgwood 1730 1795 the famous english pottery maker but do you know that as an american you have an even better reason for holding his name in grateful remembrance for wedgwood was a leader among the englishmen who not only sympathized pj ri rato s with the ameri j can colonies dur x ing the revola I 1 tion but did more than that he dis tributes tri buted F american an litera ture among his i 81 it countrymen and 5 helped build up such a strong sen t ciment against the 3 war that the king and his ministers were willing to J wedgwood stop it after the capture of cornwallis wedgwood also contributed heavily to a fund which was raised in england to make easier the unhappy lot of americans imprisoned there during the war and in a short time this amounted to nearly per prisoner we should also remember him gratefully because his portrait medallions of hundreds of important personages of his time similar to the one illustrating this article give us an idea which we would not otherwise have of the appearance of those notables such were the services of this man who despite the handicap of illness and a lack of education not only placed the hitherto undeveloped pottery industry of england on the pinnacle upon which it now stands but was also a very great artist who belongs to all mankind lutheran I 1 ITS TS a common thing today to say a person is a lutheran referring to ones religion but when martin luther more than four centuries ago began to disagree with just a few of the beliefs of the established church no one thought especially luther himself that he was starting a new faith that millions would follow and call lutheranism martin luther was born in saxony in 1483 and given a very strict religious training he became a priest when he was 25 ten years later he challenged some of the teachings of his church he had no intention of starting the reformation or even of denying the supremacy of martin luther the hair chair of st peter but the church made such an issue of his heresy and he fought back so zealously that ft finally nally in 1520 luther was excommunicated and his writings were burned at rome cologne and louvain his answer was to burn the papal bull which excommunicated him and he was hailed as the champion of religious liberty from 1526 to 1529 he prepared a new church service corresponding to his ideas of the doctrines of the gospel the reformation spread rapidly released by western newspaper union |