Identifier: martinluthermanh00mcgi (find matches)
Title: Martin Luther, the man and his work
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, 1861-1933
Subjects: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-ents of one of historys greatest figures. And yet thehonesty and sturdy common sense which made thefather a trusted friend of the counts of Mansfeld, anda trusted counselor of the town, the vigor, courage,and self-reliance which enabled him to win and keepsuccess, the sanity and independence which markedhis attitude toward religion, as toward other things inlife, gather significance in the light of what came after.It was a characteristic reply he made to a priest whowas offering consolation as he lay critically ill, andwas exhorting him to make his peace with God by giv-ing money to the clergy: I have many children. I willleave my property to them; they need it more. Pioushe was, in his way, and a loyal member of the church,but he put the ordinary human obligations and respon-sibilities above all else and to them he was alwaysfaithful. Significant also were the cheerful temper and whole-some humor of the mother. She looked always onthe brighter side of life, and met even bitter expe-
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Copied (rom the original portrait by 1. A. Schmidt martin luthers mother From the painting by Lucns Cranach in the Wartbnrg, Eisenach BOYHOOD AND YOUTH 7 riences with a smile. It was a favorite saying of hers,which Martin loved to repeat, If the world smiles noton you and me the fault is ours. She was imaginativeand sensitive, the prey of all sorts of conflicting emo-tions, and she lived in devout and fearsome bondageto much that her husband must have laughed at. Mans-feld, with its somber woods and cavernous hills, wasa congenial haunt of gnomes and fairies. Of theblacker sort they were apt to be. In the mines, asLuther once said, the devil teases and deceivespeople, makes a racket, and calls up specters beforetheir eyes until they think they see a great heap of oreand pure silver where there is none at all. For if hecan bewitch and fool men even above ground, by clearday, in the light of the sun, so that things look otherthan they are, he can do it still better in the mines.Margaret

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