Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ons of the day, he was ever ready, ashis correspondence shows, to look after the tem-poral as well as the spiritual interests of his influence with the Elector and others in highstation was continually sought, and never refusedwhere the applicant was worthy. Replying to arequest of Spalatin in December, 1519, he writes: The work is so great and I am so burdened ! Thelectures on the Psalms demand the entire time of aman ; the sermons to the congregation on the Gospelsand Genesis, that of another ; my var
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ons of the day, he was ever ready, ashis correspondence shows, to look after the tem-poral as well as the spiritual interests of his influence with the Elector and others in highstation was continually sought, and never refusedwhere the applicant was worthy. Replying to arequest of Spalatin in December, 1519, he writes: The work is so great and I am so burdened ! Thelectures on the Psalms demand the entire time of aman ; the sermons to the congregation on the Gospelsand Genesis, that of another ; my various monastic duties,that of a third ; and the work you have asked, that of afourth, to say nothing of the many letters that I mustwrite, and other engagements, as my intercourse withfriends, that steal entirely too much time. ^ Among these duties, his lectures to his studentsand his sermons were regarded by him as the mostimportant. Amidst labours prosecuted with suchenergy, the number of students constantly grew,crowding to Wittenberg from all quarters. 1 De Wette, i : .$ emais Txw wsacrz [AVTlMMEVCtRTl LUTHERS SEAL. CHAPTER VI POLITICAL COMPLICATIONS; NEW ALLIES; THETHREE GREAT TREATISES OF 1520 WITH scarcely less interest than the profess-ors, the Elector Frederick watched theprogress of his University, and sought in everyway to promote its advancement. He appliedhimself personally to the work of securing the bestteachers, and defrayed the expense of publishingwhat they wrote. Under the influence of Stau-pitz, having himself become an earnest student ofthe Bible, he had an excellent spiritual adviser inhis private secretary, Spalatin, Luthers constantcorrespondent. The important position occupiedby the Elector in the empire after the death ofMaximilian has been already noticed. For overfive months there was an interregnum. Maximilianhad died without realising his ambition of securingthe succession to his grandson Charles. There wasat once a struggle between Charles of
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