. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . His early years were spent in thehumble home of a German peasant. By daily toil as aminer, his father earned the means for his education. Heintended him for a lawyer; but God purposed to make hima builder in the great temple that was rising so slowlythrough the centuries. Hardship, privation, and severediscipline were the school in which Infinite Wisdom pre-pared Luther for the important mission of his life. Luthers father was a man of strong and active mind,and great force of character, honest, resolute, and
. The great controversy between Christ and Satan during the Christian dispensation . His early years were spent in thehumble home of a German peasant. By daily toil as aminer, his father earned the means for his education. Heintended him for a lawyer; but God purposed to make hima builder in the great temple that was rising so slowlythrough the centuries. Hardship, privation, and severediscipline were the school in which Infinite Wisdom pre-pared Luther for the important mission of his life. Luthers father was a man of strong and active mind,and great force of character, honest, resolute, and straight-forward. He was true to his convictions of duty, let theconsequences be what they might. His sterling good senseled him to regard the monastic system with distrust. Hewas highly displeased when Luther, without his consent,entered a monastery; and it was two years before the fatherwas reconciled to his son, and even then his opinions re-mained the same. Luthers parents bestowed great care upon the educationand training of their children. They endeavored to instruct (120). REFORMERS OF, THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. LUTHERS SEPARATION FROM ROME. 121 them in the knowledge of God and the practice of Christianvirtues. The fathers prayer often ascended in the hearingof his son, that the child might remember the name of theLord, and one day aid in the advancement of his advantage for moral or intellectual culture whichtheir life of toil permitted them to enjoy, was eagerly im-proved by these parents. Their efforts were earnest andpersevering to prepare their children for a life of piety andusefulness. With their firmness and strength of characterthey sometimes exercised too great severity; but the reformerhimself, though conscious that in some respects they haderred, found in their discipline more to approve than to con-demn. At school, where he was sent at an early age, Luther wastreated with harshness and even violence. So great was thepoverty of his parents, that upon
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