Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-01-21
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From DAubigne's History ofthc Grea, Re.
formation.
LUTHER BEFORE THE DIET OF
WORMS.

WORMS.
In the meanwhile Spalstin himself began to
be disturbed with apprehensions. Situate i.
the midst of enemies of the Reformation, he
heard it said on all sides that n heretio's safe
conduct would be disregarded. His friendship
took the alarm. At the moment when Luther
was approaching the city, servant met him
and delivered him message from the chap
lain. abstain from entering Worms And
this from Spalatn himself the Electors conf
| DENTAL adviser Luther, still mistaken, turn
ed his eyes on the messenger, and answered,
Go tell your master, that though there should
be as many Devils at Worms, as there a.r tides
on its roofs, f.ootRd enter IT.
At no time had the grandeur Of Luther's
| spirit been more evinced. The messenger re-
entered Worms, and delivered the astounding
declaration. 4 was then intrepid said La-
| ther, "a few days before his death.) Il feared
nothing. God can give this boldness to man.
know not whether now should have 50 much
liberty and joy when our cause is good
adds his disciple Mathesus, the hear, ex-
pands and gives courage and energy to the e.
| vangeiist and the soldier
At last, on the morning of the 10th April,
| Luther discovered the walls of the ancient c-
ty. All were expecting him. But one sub
ject occupied the thoughts of the citizens
Some young mobiles, Bernard of Kerschfeld,
Albert Lindenau, with six mounted cavaliers,
nj nthor oant1op,op oftho rat;n,o 80
the number in all of hundred, (accor1ing to
Pallavicini,) in their impatience, rode out of
the city to meet him, and surrounded his ira
| yelling car, escorted him to the gates. He
went forward. The imperial herald galloped
before, attired in the vestments of his office.
Luther came next in his modest vehicle. Jo-
mas followed on horseback, and the party Of
horsemen surrounded him. A vast crowd was
awaiting his arrival at the gates. At ten o.
clock he entered within those walls, whence 50
many had predicted to him that he would ne
yer again depart Behold him in Worms
Two thousand persons accompanied the ia
med monk of Wittemberg through the streets
of the city. People ran to their doors to see
| him. The crowd was increasing every mo-
ment,--and was even greater than at the pub
lie entry ofthe Emperor himself Ofa sudden
says an historian, a man clothed in grotesque
habiliments, and bearing before him lofty
cross, as is customary at funerals, penetrated
| through the crowd, and advanced towards Lu-
ther then with shril and plaintiff cadence,
in which the priests perform masses from the
repose of the dead, he chaunted these words,
as if he were uttering them from the abode of
departed spirits
Adventist, Q derderabllis,
Quem expectabamus in tenebris
Thus was Luther's arrival celebrated by a
| requiem. 1t was the court fool OF one Of the
Dukes Of Bavaria, who (if the account may be
depended upon) thus gave to Luther one ofthose
warnings, replete at once with solemn instruc-
tion and irony, of which so many instances are
on record. But the shouts of the crowd soon
drowned the de profundis of the cross-bearer.
The procession made its way with difficulty
through the people. At last the herald of the
Empire stopped before the hotel Of the Knights
of Rhodes. 1t was there that Frediic of Thun,
and Philip Feilitsch, two counsellors of the E.
lector, and Uric pappenheim, the marshal of
the Empire, had taken up their abode. Luther
alighted from his Wagon, and as he set his
foot on the ground, exclaimed, God will be my
Defence Il entered Worms said he, at a la
ter period, 'in an open cart and in a monks