Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-21
Or. Rhys R. Lloyd Delivers In
struotive Lecture at
Barratt Hall.
THE MAKER OF A NEW EPOCH
His Career, Reaching Its Climax at
Worms. Monument to the Right
OF Man 20 Think for Himself

ur Rhys r. Lloyd's lecture on
martin Luther and His Time" de-
livered at Barratt hail Wednesday
evening. was highly instructive. The
doctor said when Luther was a school
BOY u "a he earned money for his
education By playing his violin and
singing in the street. one day. Frau
hotter. a wealthy German woman
heard the lad. invited him TO her home.
seated him at her table and for four
Years he was an inmate Of her home.
and was much Influenced by its rehn-
mg Influences. This woman had ideas
OF her own and taught the youth that
"a God-sanctioned marriage was the
noblest. purest life for man or woman.
and this principle bore noble fruit
when Luther as "a Franciscan monk
learned the corruption Of the clergy.
for he then loudly preached marriage
even among the monks themselves
A NEW EPOCH BORN.
The age was pregnant with great
deeds and mighty men. and Martin
Luther was the John the BAPTIST of
modern times said Dr. Lloyd. There
was wonderful progress of sculpture
and art; this was the age of Raphael.
Michael Angelo ana other great artists.
The printing press had just been dis
covered. There was n great impetus to
learning. The Latin language as the
only language Of the world Of liter
allure was overthrown. Luther trans
lated the New Testament into German.
and from that day 10 this Germany has
led the world In culture, declared the
speaker.
All Europe over which ruled the Ro-
man church, was battlefield. and
pope and prince robbed the people. The
Ten Commandments, said the doctor
were condensed into one: GIVE gold"
Learning cried aloud to be liberated
from ignorance. religion from the
priests. and the nations from the
tyranny Of their princes. a regular
money system was established. dis
placing barter.
AZ the need OF a reformer God al
ways sends one, he declared Martin
Luther determined 10 become "A monk
Under Augustine the greatest thinker
or the age, he learned that punishment
is simply the result Of sinful acts and
a realization Of the great love Of God.
The young monk journeyed % Rome.
and as he approached the holy city,
Frustrated himself in alteration. He en-
tered and when he came To the Vatican
and the stairway said TO be taken from
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up the stairway on his knees. for which
an who did this were absolved from
penance for 1000 years.
FAITH OF THE PAST
Martin crawled half way up. Sudden
ly ho paused stood crect--a man who
could think for himself He turned
about and deliberately walked down
the stairway repeating. "the Just by
faith shall live When he left Rome
he said. IF there is a hell Rome is
built over it,"
After this. as professor in a coll
lege he wrote and taught other people
10 think. and such a man WAS a man
10 be feared by the existing order. So
he was communicated by the pope,
but Luther scornfullv turned on the
pope and communicated the pope
himself and publicly burnt the ban.
This boldness won him many friends.
The pope demanded his head. and then
came the Diet Of Worms the most
Important assembly IN the history OF
the world. said the lecturer Luther's
march 10 Worms. in obedience to the
summons, was "A triumphant ovation
an along the way, and when at last he
stood before the nightly princes.
priests and prelates Of the world this
great pioneer Of modern civilization.
saws Carlisle. was the most heroic
figure OF all history But although
condemned 10 death, he lived on TO do
his work for the world and through