Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ce, eighteen thousand of them fell. Over onehundred thousand are believed to have desolation in some portions of the country wasindescribable. So completely were they crushed,and so much more miserable was their condition thanit had previously been, that much sympathy wasawakened, especially in the cities, and Luther wasseverely criticised for his bitter denunciations andthe influence he had exerted against them. Thecharge was made that he had stimulated them torebellion, and then forsaken them in the
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ce, eighteen thousand of them fell. Over onehundred thousand are believed to have desolation in some portions of the country wasindescribable. So completely were they crushed,and so much more miserable was their condition thanit had previously been, that much sympathy wasawakened, especially in the cities, and Luther wasseverely criticised for his bitter denunciations andthe influence he had exerted against them. Thecharge was made that he had stimulated them torebellion, and then forsaken them in their met his critics in an open letter to the Chancellorof Mansfeld, in which he repeats and justifies whathe had written in the book published several monthsbefore. For the time his name was as thoroughlyabhorred among the peasants, as it had been oncehailed with acclamations of joy, but his course withrespect to their revolt was entirely consistent withthat which he had a short time before pursued inreference to the uprising of the nobles. Erlangen, 24 : 294 LUTHER AND CATHERINE, 1538. CHAPTER V MARRIAGE LUTHER chose a strange time for his was prospect more discouraging. Bothnobility and peasantry had been ahenated. Hispower of moving the masses that had once beenmost effective had failed. Authority had triumphed,but it had been at a fearful sacrifice. The Electorhad just died. Nevertheless throughout these graveevents his thoughts had been for some weeks upontaking a wife. Even in his mission to the Thurin-gian peasants, with all the horrors of a war beforehim, the issues of which he foresaw must be mostdistressing, he was meditating this step. His friendsscarcely believed him. But, as usual, when the de-cision was once made, it was quickly executed. Theannouncement that on June 13, 1525, he had marriedCatherine von Bora, amazed both friend and years most firmly maintaining the sanctity ofmarriage and denying the obligation of vows mad
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