History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . had brought no fruitage.—choked, cut down, orrooted out. Some, however, found a fertile soil in the heart andhead of a German monk. The great Husbandman protected itthere. The fruitage was Protestantism. The movement centeredin Luther. Apart from it Luther would cease to be from him, if a reformation had come at .all, it must havetarried long. Martin LutherAs Student. The Nero of the Reformation was born in
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . had brought no fruitage.—choked, cut down, orrooted out. Some, however, found a fertile soil in the heart andhead of a German monk. The great Husbandman protected itthere. The fruitage was Protestantism. The movement centeredin Luther. Apart from it Luther would cease to be from him, if a reformation had come at .all, it must havetarried long. Martin LutherAs Student. The Nero of the Reformation was born in 59 THE PROTESTAXT REFORMATION Eisleben, November 10, 1483, son of Hans and Margaret Luther(nee Ziegler), his wife. His father, a miner, was able to sendhis hoy to the Latin school at Mansfeld, his home, and later toa similar one in Magdeburg (1497). In 1498, he came toEisenach, to St. Georges Church School, where he had freelodging with a relative of his mother. For food, he, with otherstudents, according to a custom of the time, sang from door todoor in the streets. Charmed with the high, clear voice of theyouth, Ursula, wife of Kunz Cotta, gave him free lodging and. LUTHER STATUE, MARKET SQUARE, EISLEBEN With the left hand the figure clasps the Bible to his heart, while with the righthe crushes the Papal Bull of excommunication. Four leading events in his life arerepresented by tablets on the sides. Directly back of the statue is the gable ofVndreas-Kirche, in which Luther preached his last sermon, a few days previous tobis death. The house in which he was born, the one in which he died, and thechurch in which he was baptized, are nearby on the by Rev. B. B. Boxer boarding for three years. From here he entered the Universityof Erfurt (1501), receiving his masters degree in 1505. Hisstudies were directed towards entering the legal his college mates he was known as the musician, andthe learned philosopher, and a great future prophesied for
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