Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-11-13
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IN HONOR OF LUTHER.
Anniversary of Reformation Celebrated
Last Night.

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The First Lutheran church was weR
filled last night to join in the celebra-
ton of the anniversary of the begin
ming of the Protestant reformation In
Germany, S85 years ago. They met To
glory over the memory of Martin Luz
ther and the time so many years ago
when he nailed his ninety-iye theses
upon the church door at Wittenberg,
Germany, and gave to the world new
epoch, a new light which has been ever
growing larger. The goodness and great
ness Of Martin Luther was the theme
and the foundation and the belief and
the objects of the Lutheran church
were dwelt upon by the speaker OF the
evening, DR.. Carl SwensSon, president
Of Bethany college, at Lindsborg, Kas.
The gathered followers of the great re-
former were told that had it not been
for Luther, had it not been for his dec
laration of freedom in belief, in mind,
the great American republic would not
have been possible. The Declaration OF
independence, he declared, had for it's
foundation the liberty principles Of Luz
Their.
Incidental to an address which held
the closest attention Of his hearers and
in which the speaker spoke with feel
cidents Of Luther's life, DR.. SwenSson
took occasion to denounce the recent
act Of the Chicago university in declar-
ing against co-education as deteStable
act and a step backward TO that great
university He gloried that DR.. Harper,
the head Of that institution, was not a
Lutheran and said that he wouldt be
surprised if the next move Of DR.. Har-
per and Mr.. Rockefeller would be to
! get out an injunction to prevent girls
being born Of the same parents as boys
This came up incidental to part OF
his address in which he said that Mar
tin Luther was the first pedagogue to
declare that women had the same
rights to education as men,
Rev. DR.. L. S. Keyser, of Atchison,
and. Rev. DR.. J. A. Zeigler, pastor of the
local church, also took part in the SER
vices. During the afternoon meeting
Of the ministers Of the two Kansas
Citys was held at the church to talk
over the reformation and it's different
with he singing Of Luhers great hymn.
with the singing of Luthers great
hymn, Sin Feste Burg
DR.. Swensson told of his visit to the
grave Of Luther and then proceeded to
outline the move of the reformation. He
spoke of the character of the man and
what his work has meant to the world.
Nothing has created such a stir in the
religious world as the thesis of Luther.
| Far back in 1917, in the darkness of the
middle ages, the old light-we call it
the new-shone upon the world. We
should be proud to be the sons of such
a church, the church of the first Protes-
tant communion. Luther was the re-
! former Of the sixteenth century, the
reformer of all centuries. The CONVEX
sion Of that one German was the begin
ming Of a new world-a new epoch
more beautiful, more wonderful than
in all history"
Luther's great struggle with his cons
cience was told Of, and his final out
burst against the conditions of the
times, when so much money bought
the forgiveness Of sins. Luther believed
that forgiveness could only be found
through faith in God. The life Of q
Christian should be only life Of love
and life of service.
Luther and his reformation were
great because he had the true concep-
ton of life in general. He had supreme
faith in the Bible inspiring the faith
of God. If the Bible is not true then
religion is false Lutheran christianity
stands on the old platform that the
word of God is contained in the Bible
and that lie Bible is the word of God
and an inspired book
DR.. Swensson closed wit a plea for
a united Lutheran church and the cit
ing of q few figures to show that there
were 68,000,000 Lutherans in the world,
while combined, the five other leading
Protestant denominations only equaled
6O,000,000.
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