Luther at home . XI. THE HOME-LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER. O man since the time of Paul hasoccupied so much of human thought,or so lived in the grateful memory ofthe Christian world, as Martin eventful life of noble words and heroicdeeds is the grandest fact of modern his-tory. His confession of the true faith isstill shaping the religious sentiment of theevangelical Church; and his ideal of per-sonal liberty is still felt in every pulse of2 . *3 14 THE HOME-LIFE OF human freedom and every step of Christiancivilization. No eulogy of marble or of song can ade-quately celebrate the greatnes
Luther at home . XI. THE HOME-LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER. O man since the time of Paul hasoccupied so much of human thought,or so lived in the grateful memory ofthe Christian world, as Martin eventful life of noble words and heroicdeeds is the grandest fact of modern his-tory. His confession of the true faith isstill shaping the religious sentiment of theevangelical Church; and his ideal of per-sonal liberty is still felt in every pulse of2 . *3 14 THE HOME-LIFE OF human freedom and every step of Christiancivilization. No eulogy of marble or of song can ade-quately celebrate the greatness of his workfor the Church and the world. Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;No monument set off his memoriesBut the eternal substance of his greatness. Ours is an humbler and all the moregrateful, and perhaps needful, task of por-traying Luthers domestic life. The stern and unique grandeur of hispublic life only makes one the more curiousto see how that life looks in the privacy ofhome; for the household is
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