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Excerpt from The Luther Commemoration and the Church of England: A Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford on Sunday, November 11, 1883 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. - 1 peter ii. 16. IT is known, probably, to most here present that this Sunday is being observed throughout Protestant Germany as the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the birthday of Luther, who was born at Eisleben, in Saxony, on November 10th, 1483. No doubt the memory of the great reformer comes home with greater intensity of sympathy to the German than to any other European people. For he is emphatically the German national hero; he has been the inspiring principle of their later political and ecclesiastical freedom; he was the virtual creator of their literary language by his translation of the Bible; some of his hymns have all the might of popular national ballads, and awaken undying enthusiasm on all critical occasions when the hearts of assembled multitudes are deeply stirred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.