Excerpt from Luther by a Lutheran, or a Full Length Portrait of Doctor Martin Luther: Being a Comprehensive, Though Condensed and Correct History of the Life and Stupendous Achievements of the Great Reformer, From the Cradle to the Grave

IN presenting the Life of Luther to the American public, it would seem to be proper to give a few reasons for such an um dertaking at this time. It may be asked and no doubt will be, have we not Lives of Luther in abundance? Why then add another to the list It is true we have d'aubigne, and Milner, and Scott, and Bowers, and Tischer, and a number of inferior works; but it is a remarkable fact, that we have not in the Eng lish language a single life of Luther, that pretends to give any thing like a correct and extensive account of the great Reform er, written by a Lutheran. And yet we humbly conceive that the gre atreformer ought to be fairly represented in English by a member of the church that bears his illustrious name. There are thousands and tens of thousands of as warm-hearted and whole-souled Lutherans in this country as ever lived, who are not able to read the rich and copious language of their fathers; and ought they not to be supplied with a correct and impartial life of the illustrious Reformer? Far be it from us to accuse those good and learned men of other churches who have writ ten the life of Luther, of doing him injustice, or intentionally misrepresenting him, but in most of such works we often see a parsimony of praise, which actually amounts to unintentional misrepresentation. This we have endeavored to correct in the following pages, and how well we may have succeeded, the ln telligent reader will be able to? Judge after a careful perusal.

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