Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . uided in this though he was, he thus, underthe sense of his responsibility to God, asserted hisChristian freedom. The vow thus made was faithfully weeks later, on July i6, 1505, he invited hismost intimate friends to spend the evening withhim. It was what he believed to be his farewell tothe world. For the last time he determined toenjoy music and song. The decision once made, allsadness was gone. The contradictions of his lifewere clearly reflected by his conduct that who could sing and p
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . uided in this though he was, he thus, underthe sense of his responsibility to God, asserted hisChristian freedom. The vow thus made was faithfully weeks later, on July i6, 1505, he invited hismost intimate friends to spend the evening withhim. It was what he believed to be his farewell tothe world. For the last time he determined toenjoy music and song. The decision once made, allsadness was gone. The contradictions of his lifewere clearly reflected by his conduct that who could sing and play over the prospect ofrenouncing, for Christs sake, singing and playing,was to find, hereafter, that Christ was to be honouredby song and music, rather than by silence, and bysocial intercourse and contact with the world, ratherthan by seclusion. Sorrowfully his friends accom-panied him, the next morning, to the gates of theAugustinian cloister, where he knocked for admis-sion. As they opened, he entered. They monastic habit was assumed. The world wasleft H DESIGNED BY LUTHERS COLLEAGUE, DR. JUSTUS JONAS. CHAPTER III IN THE CLOISTER E was now face to face with the deepest ques-tion that could agitate mans mind. The onegreat subject that was henceforth to absorb his at-tention was that of his relation to God. Deeplydevout, the principles were already rooted in hisheart that were to push their way through severeconflict to a complete victory over the errors thatattended them and held him captive. Whatever abuses pervaded monachism, due creditshould ever be given to the moral earnestness inwhich it originated, and the spiritual influencewhich, during the period of the Churchs decline,it often exercised and diffused. Even though theyfell under the corrupting influences against whichthey arose as protests, nevertheless what mediaevalChristianity would have been without its religiousorders, it is difficult to surmise. In the midst of anignorant, careless, and of
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