The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1883-11-13 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

WATERCENTEN RY.  ) The 400th anniversary of he Luther, the originator of the "r in the 16th century, was refer', d and chapels in Barrow on two instances it was made the • vice, but in most places It was t. of reference incidentally in hi Abbey-road Wesleyan Chape scholar's service, conducted b Smith, who, in a popular pl t. sat some of the incidents in the gr at fore his hearers, and pointed u t tians of all denominations. At St. John's Church, t Rev: G. T. Dunne, the vicar, held a special s mica for Orangemen, on the subject of the Ref: rmation, with which Luther's name is so asset tially associated. In giving a brief resume of Luthe to life, he stated that he was born on the 10th Nov., 148 ;at the village of isleben, in Saxony, born on St. Ma ti 's Eve, which was the reason of his having been chettened Martin, and was the son of a well to do min t: . At that period the Roman Church, or the Papa .y was at the height of is luxury and power, little dreaming that in that their hour of unexpected pros . trity, a poor monk with no pretences to wonderful taint or ability, was being educated by themselves to gi e them such a blow as they would never recover fro . The people if they would not be persuaded to ac nowledge the Papacy were coerced at the point of die sword, but with the birth of this miner's son was brought the first crack that was to spread to such Is :e consequences. the preacher next traced Luther's progress from Eisleben to Mansfeldt, thence to collegt at Erfurth whence he entered the convent at Witten rg. The visit to Rome, where he hoped to find all th: Romish religion purer in its practice and in the peiso • a of its priests, instead of which he found it more f. I and openly debased. Many people were now trying to reintroduce into the Church some of the papal . ctices and doctrines, but let them all pray God that ugland and English men might never see the day hen any man would be put in the place of God, or . the sovereign of this country at the head at the Ch rch. Luther's discovery of the full number of the ...ks of the New Testament, and his subsequent stn. y of the scriptures, his appointment as a doctor of div uity, his preaching and his after tran-latiou of the ful text of the scriptures were next touched upon. Lt X., the greatest Pone who had ever sat at St. Pete 's, in Rome, was then depicted as the unscrupulous ope who determined to leave in the Vatican a bui di • g that should keep his name before posterity. The funds requisite for this purpose were to be raised by the sale of pardons and indulgences all over Europe. he charge for a pardon for the murder of a father or • other was about 10s. of English money. Tetzel's via t to Wittemburg and Luther's nailing of his 95 the:es on the Church doors were then related, and the ev ntual malt of an open Bible to Europe stated Add easing the members of the Orange Lodges present, tie preacher said the open Bible was the thing to be thankful for. As for Ireland, in which there were to many of them interested, only one thing could sa e it, and that was the open Bible, which had say. England in days gone by. Ireland could not be B.IV dby fighting and illfeeling, but by noble and goo. living. • Li •  birthday of Martin 'rotestant Reformation d to in various churches today last. In one or iubject of a special seronly made the subject le discourses. At the there was a spnial the Rev. W. Hodgson I,mt manner, brought A Reformer's life be'. it the re.ults to Chris