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The Lutheran Pioneer

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The Luther Room.

Our picture shows us the so-called Luther
Room in the castle of Wartburg as it is still
seen by the traveller in Germany. Luther
occupied this room for ten months in 1521—22,
when, after his triumph at Worms, he was
brought to the old castle of Wartburg as to a
place of concealment. This was done by order
of his good friend, Frederick the Wise of Sax-
ony, who feared that it would be very difficult
to save Luther from the clutches of his enemies
or to protect him from the knife of the assassin.
He, therefore, had Luther suddenly seized on
his way from Worms to Wittenberg by masked
horsemen, who carried him off through the
forest to the strong castle of the Wartburg.
Here he was held in friendly keeping, safe
from the persecutions of his enemies, but still
busy in the defense and spread of the Gespel.
For he was not idle during his
stay in the castle. In that room
and at that table, which you
see in our picture, he studied,
and prepared valuable works
for the Church. The most im-
portant work, which he there
begun, was his translation of
the New Testament into Ger-
man, which was published in
the following year and cireu-
lated throughout all Germany.
He thus gave to the people an
open Bible, and brought the
everlasting Gospel into the
homes of rich and poor.

Although Luther was under
the ban of the pope and the
emperor, he, trusting in God,
did not fear his enemies and
remained in his place of concealment only in
obedience to his good friend, the Elector.
When he, therefore, heard of dangerous dis-
turbances raised by fanatical men in his con-
gregation at Wittenberg, he could no longer
be kept from returning to that city. He wrote
to the Elector that he would now leave his
place of concealment and go to Wittenberg
under the protection of God, which, he said,
was a much higher protection than that of the
Elector. :

In the early part of March, 1522, Luther
left his room in the strong castle of the Wart-
burg and hastened to Wittenberg, where he
attacked the fanaticism of the disturbers with
the Word of God. During eight days he
preached a sermon. to the people every day.
They were glad to see again that truthful,
earnest face in the pulpit, to hear again that
faithful voice which had comforted and warned
them so often in public and in private. By his
powerful sermons Luther soon restored peace
and order in the Church.

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Keep in the light of the Sun of Righteousness,
if you would scatter sunshine all around you.

Stingy Davy.

Davy was a very pretty little boy. He had
light curly hair, dark blue eyes, and rosy
cheeks. But he was very stingy. He did not
like to share anything with his little brothers
and sisters. One day he went into the kitchen
where his mother was at work, and saw on the
table a saucer of jelly.

“Can I have that jelly?’’ asked Davy.

“Mrs. White sent it to me,’’ said Davy’s
mother. ‘She has company to dinner, and
made this jelly very nice. But I don’t care
for it; so you may have it if you won't be
stingy with it.’’

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under the big tree by the porch; and we had
strawberries, cake, and raisins. Just as we sat
down to eat, Mrs. White saw us from her win-
dow, and she sent over a big bowl of ice cream
and some jelly, left from her dinner. We had
a splendid time. You ought to have been
with us.’”
Poor Davy!

How mean he felt! And he

was well punished for eating his jelly all alone.

—WSelected.

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“Give Him Another Chance.”

Two miners were sinking a shaft. It was
rather a dangerous business they had to do.

David took the saucer of jelly and went out! Their custom was to cut a fuse with a knife;

into the yard; but he did not call his little
brothers and sisters to help him eat it.
“If I divide with them there won’t be a

spoonful apiece,’’ he thought.

for one to have enough than for each to have
just a little.”

So he ran to the barn and climbed up to the
loft, where he was sure no one would think of
looking for him.

Just as he began to eat the jelly he heard
his sister Fannie calling him. But he did not

answer her. He kept very still.

“They always want some of everything I
have,’’ he said to himself. ‘‘If I have just a
ginger-snap they think I ought to give them
each a piece.” ;

When the jelly was all eaten; and he had
scraped the saucer clean, David went down
into the barn-yard and played with the little
white “calf, and hunted for eggs in the shed
where the cows were. He was ashamed to go
into the house, for he knew he had been very
stingy about the jelly.

“© Davy,’’ said Fannie, running into the
barn-yard, ‘‘where have you been this long
time? We looked everywhere for you.”

“«What did you want?” asked Davy, think-
ing that of course his sister would say that she
had wanted him to share the jelly with her.

“Mother gave usa party,” said Fannie.‘‘ We
had all the doll’s dishes set out on a little table

“It is better |

the man then got into a bucket and made a
signal to be drawn up. The other one got into
the bucket when it came down, with one hand
on the signal rope and one on the fuse. When
he touched the fuse he made a
signal, and was at once hauled
up. One day they left their
knife up above, and rather
than go up for it they cut the
fuse with a sharp stone. It
took: fire.

“The fuse is on fire!’’ they
both cried out, as they leaped
into the bucket; but the wind-
lass would hold but one at a
time—only one could go up.
One man instantly leaped out
and said—

“Up with you, Ill be in
heaven in a minute.” With
lightning speed the bucket was
drawn up, and the man was
saved.

The explosion took place, and
they went down, expecting to find the mangled
body of the miner; but the fact was that the
charge had loosened a mass of rock, and it lay
across the shaft, and with the exception of a
few bruises and a little scratching, the man was
unhurt. He was asked, ‘“‘Why did you insist
on the other man’s hastening up?”? And this
was his noble answer— 3

‘Because I knew my soul was safe, for I’ve
given it into the hands of Him of whom it is
said that ‘faithfulness is the girdle of his reins,’
and I knew that what I give Him He never
gives up; but the other chap was an awful
wicked Jad and I wanted to give him another
chance.”

All the infidelity in the world cannot produce
such a single act of heroism as that.

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A LITTLE boy once called out fo his father,
who had mounted his horse for a journey,
‘*Good-bye, dear papa; J love you thirty miles
long!’’ A little sister quickly added, ‘‘Good
bye, dear papa; you will ever ride to the end
of my love!’’ That is what Jesus means to
say: My love has no limit; tt passeth all knowl-
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