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FAMOUS SONGS
This is the keynote to the character of the "clear-voiced nightingale/' as Hans Sachs called him. Spangenberg said of him, " When I saw Dr. Luther at Wittenberg, I could think of nothing less than of a large, powerful, well-armed warship setting out to sea in confidence amid tempestuous waves."
Luther's was a grand character—broad, far seeing, and sympathetic. It required some courage to cast off the monk's cowl and marry a nun. He married Catherine de Bora. She had to beg her bread from door to door after her husband's death. They lived a happy every-day life together, and understood each other. Luther and his wife were frequently very poor. Those who benefitted most by his preaching troubled not about how he lived. Which is a paradox, but let it stand. It may serve as a lesson. Foolishly he refused to accept money for his writings. This was a wrong thing to do, and derogatory to his authorship. But the story of Luther's life is ancient history. There were times when Luther enjoyed the good things of this world as well as any other rational being. He was too sen-sible to refuse the bounty the earth provided for his body's well-being. Besides, did he not write the famous couplet:
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