Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-11-17
HE SERMON


heaven. And he ha.. in hi. hand lG,lcIook open
Yesterday huudcdth anniversary the birthday
upon Church Universal and the world
second only that of Paul the Great Apostle SO remark
able the and influence OF this Martin Luther
the renowned and venerable Emperor Germany has issued
his hundrcdh birthday should be celebrated
national festival throughout the German Empire On the
evening of the 9th OF November all the church bells be
rung the 10TH in the morning there will be school festival
and the evening turgCa other preparatory will be
performed and to-day, the nth Sunday uhers Hymns will be
sung while hc emperor especially expresses the wish that the
should seek the gorfcaon of man. but rather
press gratitude God the benefits granted Germany by
OF the Reformation
If Iuthers and influence had been limited the Ger
Empire had been confined the German people there
would have been special why other naonaie should
have participated in this festival but both the fame and influence
of Luther world wide hence join in this grand universal
Festival We do this for the glorifcaton of man. but
gratitude to God for raising Reorme much needed in
his day and generation "lo all ages, remarks American
writer, "his will Iiberaor to
whose mind the world owes the progress it has made in civza
ton The whole world his debtor The England and America
of to-day what they because OF him Referring his
BIRTH Carlyle thus writes "ln the whole world there
unimporan pair of people than this miner and his wife
Iuthes parents And yet what all Empeors Popes and
Potentates in comparon2 There then born
mighty whose light fame beacon, long
centuries and epochs OF the world the world and history
waiting for this man 1t said OF Christ by the Apostle
Paul. But when the 1ness of time God forth
his SON. when the fitness OF time Martin Luther
born.
there are two classes of Bible interpreters one
Of which refers the Book OF Revelation times Immediately fol
lowing the first proclamation of the gospel the apostolic age
and the other nepre this Book applying the long
sion OF ages from the early period of Christianity the final
sumaon OF all things The class much popriety
would apply the Protestant Reformation of the 10th Century
the mighty angel spoken of my the roth
Revelation and holding in his hand little book open That
"lle book opcn, would then undoubtedly Ribls,
and Its translation into the language of the people of
o |
twenty years old had Bible" At that period he
student in the University of Errt While day exam
ming the Library, he accidentally took from the shelf
Bible The first passage which arrested his attention the
story Hannah and her Samuel reading he says
"a place in Samuel but it time go lecture. would
lam have read the whole book through but there
un then asked for Bible entered the coister
cannot dwell in detail upon the many interesting
dents IN the of the Great Reomer but only upon
few salient points of the greatest Importance His
less proclamation OF the TRUTH brought him direct
with both the ecclesiastical and political age
agitation became Intense The Pope, and Kings holding their
authority from him could allow, course their authority
assaied and denounced by reiorme like Luther sum
moned appear and before the Emperor Charles "
Worms His friends would dssuade him from attendance and
his life threatened If he should go but his reply I
are many devils in Worms there tiles the tops
houses, would still 90 thther went and right manfuly
acquitted himself in the OF the Imperial Court and the
highest dgnaes of the Church After leaving Worms occurred
that memorable incident in his marvellous career when his
friends fearing he might be wayaid moested seized him
the public highway agreeable secret order OF the Eecor
Frederick, and hurried him away the castle Waburg
he imprisoned months While engaged
the translation of the Bible into the German language
may be styled the GROWING work of his life Writes DAubgne,
Luther ced present his with the Scriptures of
God That God who had ST. John to Patmos
there write his Revelation, had conducted Luther the wa
burg there translate the Bible" Thus has appeared
all fair historians.
cannot refrain from here quoting eloquent auson Lu-
her and his achievements which heard nearly fifty years ago
when undergraduate of Amherst College The Honorable
Edward Everett Governor of Massachusetts had
address the literary societies OF the college Referring Luther
and his great undertaking Mr. Everett following Ian
guage In the solemn loneliness which Luther him
SELF he called around him. much the the
and Latin wisdom through the study of the languages
he did the his counymen by translation OF the
Bible 1t would have been ardy impression and re-
efficacy had he done than awake dusty
acove of the Libraries the venerable shades teachers
He reused up population living thinking men, his country.
his brethren He might have and disputed Latin
his dying day and the elegant Italian scholars champions
the Church. would have answered him Latin better
and with the the people, the whole affair would
have been contest between angry and ouacous priests Awake
all antiquity from the sleep He awoke all Ger
many and half Europe from the scholastic sleep ignorance
than death He took his hands the pipe
the classic muse he moved TO his great work
-'to the Dorian mood
OF flutes and soft recorders
he easled the iron trumpet OF his mother he good
old Saxon from which derived language noble
thought and high resolve blew blast that shook the ma
lions from Rome the Okneys Sovereign citizen and peasant
started at the sound and few short years poor monk
who had begged his bread o pious oance streets Of
Eenaeh no longer hendess longer soarywas
BY victorious armies oounenancsd BY princes and What