enjoyed the pleasure of seeing the Lutheran church organized at Wittemburg; a great improvement on the Roman church. Luther struck idol worship some heavy blows; and like old Israel Putnam he bearded the wolf in his den. was as brave as a lion.

Luther

The gospel does not change a man's temperament, out only directs it into a good channel. While the beloved disciple and apostle John with his timid and child-like disposition, when he met the Lord on the Isle of Patmos, fell at his feet as dead. While Saul of Tarsus when he met the Lord on the road to Damascus said "Who art thou Lord," and when the high priest ordered him to be smitten, he turned like a lion and said "God will smite thee, thou whited sepulchre." The spirit of Paul appeared in Luther, while the lamblike disposition of the beloved apostle John descended upon the beloved Melancthon, or as Luther called him "My dear Philip," who when he was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously; guile was not found in his mouth.

Such characters are not selected by infidels when