History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . t the Diet of Worms. Frederick, ruler of Saxny,and one of the seven electors who chose the emperors, declined tobecome emperor, in favor of Charles V, King of Spain, chosenemperor, 1519. Frederick requested then that a Diet be called 67 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION and that Luther be heard before it. When summoned to go, hisfriends feared he would never be allowed to return. Lutherdeclared his intention in the words, I wi
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . t the Diet of Worms. Frederick, ruler of Saxny,and one of the seven electors who chose the emperors, declined tobecome emperor, in favor of Charles V, King of Spain, chosenemperor, 1519. Frederick requested then that a Diet be called 67 THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION and that Luther be heard before it. When summoned to go, hisfriends feared he would never be allowed to return. Lutherdeclared his intention in the words, I will go to Worms if therebe as many devils there as there are tiles upon the houseroofs!He appeared before the august assembly, Emperor Charles inthe midst, April 18. To the question whether he would retractwhat he had written against the Church, he replied, in Latin andGerman: I will give an answer without horns or teeth. UnlessI am refuted by evidence drawn from the Holy Scriptures or bysound, clear argument, I will not recant, for the pope andCouncils have often erred. Here I stand, I cannot do help me, amen! In private interviews he was urged to. his Monument at Worms, erected in 1868, is the finest of Germanys numerousstone and bronze tributes to Luther. The head of Luther is 28 feet from the 42feet square, granite base. The four corner syenite pedestals support figures of ElectorFrederick (front), Philip of Hesse (right), Melanchthon (rear), and Reuchlin (right).The seated female figures represent Augsburg, Magdeburg and Spires. Seated aboutthe Luther figure are Waldo, Wiclif, Huss, and Savonarola. There are main pin-traits, emblems and inscriptions on pedestal and wall faces. yield his opinions to a Council to be called, but he insisted, Icannot yield, let the consequence be what God wills. He de-parted April 26, under the emperors safe conduct, commandednot to preach on the way. He preached, nevertheless, in Eisenachand at Moehra, the former home of his pare
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