Luther at home . r I ^HESE pen and picture sketches are de-signed to familiarize the young with themost beautiful and instructive aspects and inci-dents of Luthers home-life. It is hoped, morever,that this portraiture of the great Reformer, as heappears in the privacy of home, will serve, insome measure, to counteract the tendency to in-dividualism in our day, and to expose the van-dalism that would substitute the freedom ofaffinities for the sacred bonds of matrimony, andbreak the wedding-ring as a superstitious doubt there are inhumanities shelteredunder the very sacredness of the
Luther at home . r I ^HESE pen and picture sketches are de-signed to familiarize the young with themost beautiful and instructive aspects and inci-dents of Luthers home-life. It is hoped, morever,that this portraiture of the great Reformer, as heappears in the privacy of home, will serve, insome measure, to counteract the tendency to in-dividualism in our day, and to expose the van-dalism that would substitute the freedom ofaffinities for the sacred bonds of matrimony, andbreak the wedding-ring as a superstitious doubt there are inhumanities shelteredunder the very sacredness of the domestic re-lations ; but everything has its shadow, and evilsmingle with all human relations, and there aresometimes grievous wrongs and oppressionsperpetrated under the very sanctity of the home-life. But surely we are not, on this account, to I * V VI PREFACE. break the sacred bonds of the marriage relation,and set the family group adrift in some vagueconceit of social freedom or some nonsense ofspiritual affi
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