The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-11-14
LUTHER'S MEMORY.
Undimmed by Four Hundred
Years of Time.
Addresses and EulOgies-Grand Display
in Europe and Observation-Disclosures
CabeI Speaks Against Luther.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 1.-THE Luther
| anniversary is declared by the press to
be an occasion for rejoicing over the
whole civilized world.
I LONDON, Nov. 11.-BarOn Won Mon
teuffel, Governor of Alsace, LOTraineand
military and civil officials attended the
Luther festival service at StrasbuTg. The
colossal statue of Luther was unveiled
| at Ash, Bohemia.
BERLIN, Nov. 11.-All the members of
the Imperial family attended a special
Luther service at the cathedral to day.
The historical procession at Eisbehen
yesterday was great success. 1t rep
resented Luther's reception by Count
Mansfield, and consisted of heTalds,
trumpeteTs, huntsmen, falcOners,
knights, eSquires, councillors and noble
men, with attendants, all richly dressed
in correct costumes of the time of Lu-
theT. Luther rode in decorated car
riage with his three sons, followed by
city guilds with banners, miners, trades,
associations and citizens generally in
various antique costumes. The whole
made splendid spectacle, elicIJing con-
tiuuOus shouts of admiration along the
| route of the procession.
NEW YORK, Nov. lin the greater
| number of Protestant churches III this
| city sermons on Luther were preached
mon was entitled, "OuT Saint Martin"
DIR. Newman PREACHED on Luther and
Leo X" In the afternoon 1900 children
connected with the Lutheran Sunday
| schools celebrated the anniversary, re-
ceiving medals bearing LutheT's pOr-
| trait. In the evening all German Lu-
| theran churches joined i'll a celebration
| at Steinway Hall. The chorus was COM
posed OF $50 voices. Rev. DR.. King spoke
4 n pIQmpnt i
| character" The Rev. DR.. Buckley, edi-
| tor of the Christian Advocate, also spoke,
| and exhibited book Of Luther's sermons
| 320 years old. The book also contained
| comic songs directed against the Pope,
| and wood cuts illustrating theological
| battles. The Rev. Thomas Armitage in
| the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church: blot
out LutheT'5 name from history, and
you must read another destiny for HOl-
| land, England, and America, as we'll as
| Germany. For them all the master spirit
| stands out IN original greatness. Luther
| filed the world with new, vital truth.
! His intellect created new literature,
his will new logic, and mis- patriotism
a new speech"
The Rev. DR.. James NJ. Pullman said
| in the church of Our Savior: The great
| secret of LutheT's success was his in
| tense love for reality. He preached that
| souls could not be saved by merely
| chanting masses; that intercourse with
| God was real and practical, and that no
| church could Come between mans soul
and God" Rev. DR.. Wilbur +. Watkins
| said in the Protestant EpscOpak church
| of the Holy Trinity: "All that Luther
did for the Reformation was done at the
| risk of his life, and if she who broke a
| box of ointment on our Lords head was
| to he 80 richly recOmpensed, what would
be the reward of him who, balancing
| his faults against his eXcellences, must
| be adjudged to have opened the we'll of
| life, chOked for centuries with the rub
| bish of human superstitiOns? LutheT's
doctrine was the doctrine of Paul, but
| the dust of 1900 years lay upon PauPS
doctrine, and this dust Luther had scat
| tered with breath. He was the fore
most TefOrmeT of the Christian church"
The Lutheru church of the Holy Trim
| ity in West 21st street was prOfusely
and handsomely decorated. Rev. G. +.
| KrOtel said: 'Luther's translation Of
the Bible, made between 1921 and 1884,
was the first to place the open Bible in
the hands of the people. He was the
father of the CatechiSm, his Greater and
| Lesser Catechism, published in 1929, hav-
| ing been not only the first, but being
yet acknowledged superior to all that
have followed. His hymn book, publish
ed in 1924, was the first of its kind. and
The Rev. DR.. j. B. ReimensnydeT, pas
tor of the Lutheran church in East 10Th
street, drew a parallel between Luther
and Moses. He said they were alike in
their meekness and in their eaTne5tness
and the causes for which they battled
were alike. Moses delivered the children
of Israel from bondage, and Luther de-
livered the people from the bondage of
a corrupt church and priesthood.
| Tho Raw Or RVIanpa i'm St. Mark =
Episcopal church, described Luther as
true and honest, of profound convictions
"a good husband and father, and de-
vOut Christian.
In the Temple of the Congregation
Bhal Jeshurun, Newark, Rev. DIR. Joseph
Leucht said Luther, though not free
| from the common prejudice against the
Jews, often spoke kindly of them. The
Reformation gave the public mind a
turn, beneficial to the Jews.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 11.-At the Cathe-
dral today MOnsignOT Capel in two dis
courses treated of Martin Luther from
the Catholic standpoint. In the morn
ing the preacher showed that the church
was an organized body, corporation
both human and divine. Human, mas
much as it is made up of teachers in hi
erarchical order, and divine, because in
! habited by the Holy Spirit. This hui
man divine creature, born on PenJecOst
Sunday, grew according to the laws OF
, its own existence, increasing, but not
creating every organ, just as Is done by
the human frame in assimllating food
Therefore the church in the fifteenth
century was the babe born on PentecOSt
now grown to manhood. In the next
place it was urged that the church il
holy in its origin, in its object, in its
, means of sanctificatiOn, in its interior
| life, which is Christ and the Holy Ghost
J and lastly, in its producing saints. And
{ then it was concluded the church at all
, times, and consequently in the sixteenth
century had this holiness. The MOnsig
nOr said the DEGREES of the Council Oi
Trent bore too painful testimony to the
: corruption existing among the clergy
and the people; but this was no proof
= against the truth and holiness OF the
church; no more than tine conduct OF
Judas would prove the apostolic college
corrupt, or our own evil deeds prove the
falsity of the Commandments, or the
crimes narrated in the daily press show
> that the American Constitution teache:
] wrongdoing. To show that the church