Smyrna times., 1883-11-14
Let goods and kindred g
Their mortal life also:
The body they may kill,
Gods truth abideth still.
His Kingdom is forever.


Gods truth abideth still.
His kingdom is forever
The music in composition was mas |
s,ve and strong, in this sense cOmpOrt-
ing with the spirit of the author and |
his time, but the abundance of musical |
slurs seemed little odd in comparison
with the easy running tunes of to-day. |
The Rev. j. ID. Rigg, the pastor, an
nOunced as the basis for Il discourse.
spoken of on all sides for its excellence,
the following passages of scripture:
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to cOnfOund the
things which are mighty and base things of the
and things which are not to bring to nOught
things that are, that no flesh shall glory in his
presence. Cor Chap 27-29
After brief introduction in which
he narrated the relation of men to
events and saying that we should lose
much that serves as inspiration to good
deeds and noble living by failing to
keep in memory the names of the
worlds heroes and the work which
they wrought, he went at once to the
subject that engaged the attention of
so many pulpits on that day-Martin
Luther-who he said was Justly recOg-
nized as the greatest Reformer of the
Protestant Church, whose name is the
watchwOrd of Professionalism. He was
born November 10, 1883, in the village
OF Eisleben, in Lower Saxony, the son
of Hans Luther and Margaretha Lin
| derman.
There had been rays of hope illumin-
ing the skies through the efforts of
SavanarOla, but while this bright par
ticular star was setting in blood, Martin
Luther was pursuing his studies in
Esenach, and laying the foundation of
that intellectual and moral character
which should subsequently shake the
Papacy to its centre and make Papal
kings and potentates grow pale with
fear. Young Luther was set apart by
his parents for the legal profession, but
while suffering much anguish of mind
because of his sense of sin, o great
affiictiOn from the loss of a friend by a
violent death, and alarm by a stroke of
lightning, changed the course of his
thoughts, and he determined to give
himself to the quiet and seclusion of
the cloister, which he entered in his
twenty-second year. His closter life
covered about twelve years. 1t was
Gods way of preparing him for what
he afterwards accomplished. The
speaker instanced a number of similar
cases in biblical history where men had
been called from seclusiOn and retire
ment to be mighty leaders, and said it
was so in political as well as in religious
life, and the reason was that leaders
must be men of reflection maturing
their plans in quiet, which was essen.
tial to deep and ripened thought. He
also instanced n number of characters
whose names stand out prominently on
the pages of medieval and modern
history, and said: 81 congratulate the
church of Christ that she is neither
heaFtless nor brainless. God is mark
ing the history Of his church with
shining shafts, standing high and beau
tiful in the light of the ages, and among
them is the brave, cultured, God-fear-
ing. devil,daring, Pope-defying Martin
Luther, whose name is the watchword
of Professionalism from Greenlands icy
; mountains to Indias coral strand. y
But said he, Luther has not found his
elvation in the heart of christendom
yet, nor will he, until Protestants fully
know what Professionalism is, by know
ing the wiley designs of Romanism
American Professionalism is hindered by
this maker of moral manacles, this tire
less forger of letters for the consciences
: of men, this willy tamperer with our
political and religious institutions.
That we sit unmolested in our worship
3 is not because the spirit of Romanism
is more tolerant to-day than when
Martin Luther nailed his 90 theses
! against the church door at Wittenburs
October 81, 1917, or when he was sum.
moned at the Diet of Worms to defend
his propositions before Charles V and
! the assembled princes and statesmen oI
i his empire" Its poEicv, he said is now
: of u decidedly more tolerant tendency
put It's spirit is as intolerant of Protest.
v antism today as when it illuminated
against Luther and his coadjutors IN
9 the sixteenth century. What changes. .
rs asked, have ever been announced In