Chapter XXV: In the Narrower Circle of the Profession

AND FAMILY. LUTHER’S BETTER FEATURES _pages_ 228-283

1. THE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, THE PREACHER, THE PASTOR.

Relations with the Wittenberg students; esteem in
which Luther was held by them; he warns them against
consorting with evil women. The Preacher and Catechist;
the force and practical bearing of Luther’s sermons;
his instructions to others how best to preach; his
discourses at home; the notes of his sermons; what he
says of Our Lady when preaching on the Magnificat; his
staunch fidelity to the great doctrines of Christianity
and his attachment to Holy Scripture; the fine
qualities of his German as evinced in his translations
and elsewhere. The spiritual guide; his concern for
discipline; his circular letters; his strictures on
certain legends; his efforts to re-introduce a new form
of confession and to further the cause of Church-music _pages_ 228-257

2. EMOTIONAL CHARACTER AND INTELLECTUAL GIFTS.

The place of feeling in Luther’s life; an interview
with Cochlæus; his powerful fancy and still more
powerful will; his huge capacity for work _pages_ 257-261

3. INTERCOURSE WITH FRIENDS. THE INTERIOR OF THE FORMER AUGUSTINIAN
MONASTERY.

The better side of the Table-Talk; his friends and
pupils on his kindly ways; his disinterestedness,
love of simplicity, his generosity, his courage when
plague threatened; his occasional belittling of his
own powers; his prayer and his trust in God; his lack
of any real organising talent. Luther’s family life;
his allusions to his wife; his care for his children _pages_ 261-283