Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-05

new university, still in It's infancy.
Students, however, are Crowding to the
town and to DR.. Luther's lectures more
than ever. lie is the hero OF the youth
Of Germany" Again in February,
1918 the diary goes on: christopher
returned Yesterday evening from the
market place, where the students have
been burning Tetzel's theses, which he
students kindled this connagration in
the market place entirely on their own
responsibility. They are full OF en-.
lhusiasm for DR.. Luther, and Of indig-
nation against Tetzel and the DOM
inicans."
THE GREAT SciHsM.
This was the beginning Of the strug-
gle which led 10 The great division in the
Christian world. 1t was occasioned by
the building OF that magnificent edidcc
OF ecclesiastical Splendor-St, Peters
Church in Rome. lndulgences were to
furnish the necessary means. The sale
OF these had been intTusted for great
part OF Germany to Albert, Archbishop
Of Mayence and Magdeburg, and he,
crippled for want Of money, secured a
loan from the wealthy Fuggers OF
Augsburg, and gave as security part Of
the profits arising from the sale. AS
Julius Koestlin says, In his Life Of
Luther" Behind the preacher OF in
dulgences Tetzel, who announced Gods
mercy to the paying believers, stood
the agents OF that commercial house,
who collected their share for their
principals" Te,zel's advent, however,
| only marks the point where the revolu.
ton against Rome, the revolt against
the abuses that had grown up within the
| Church, was pushed from the quiescent
| TO the active stage. As Bishop Hurst
remarks In his "Short History OF the
Reforma,iou:n "The sale of indulgen.
ces aroused Luther's nature TO a high
/ pitch OF excitement. He was now
ready for his mission. lie went over
the whole case against Rome, as he saw
| It, and arraigned the Church in a bill OF
charges, which he called his 'Ninety.five
| Theses They were directed princi.
| pally against the sale Of indulgcnces,
but they included the whole burden OF
| l.uther's soul. He insisted that the
| Church taught the truth, but that there
were excrescences which must be re-
/ moved"
The life of Luther takes us back more
than 400 years. Nine years before Chris
| TOPPER Columbus set sail from Palos to
| discover new ocean route 10 Cathay,
| Martin Luther was born at the little vi.
| lage Of Eisleben, the son OF peasant
who had been a slate cutter in Mohra,
and then miner in Eisleben. In I40S he
was sent to a school at Eisenach, just
below the Wartburg. In 1901 he attend
ed the university at lsrlurt, In 1906 he
entered the Augustinian cloister ut that
| place; in 1906 he became q monk; In
| 1907 he was ordained a priest, and in
| 1908 he was appointed professor o
philosophy and later Of theology at the
University Of Wiitenberg then a small
town OF only 5000 inhabitants. II was
in Wittenberg that Luther did most o
his greatest work, and the little town Is
crowded with historic places connected
with his HE.
From Wittenbcrg he made his first
visit to Rome, from which he returned
iull of bitterness Of split against the
abuses in the Church that reigned un-
checked. II was there that he lec,ured
and drew thousands Of students from
every part to Germany to listen to him.
1t was there that he published his
Thesis, mailbag them to the door Of the
Schloss Church. 1t was there that
during the next three years, while
engaged in disputes with Cajetan and
Eek, he wrote and brought out several