LUTHER QUADRICENTENNIAL. 



Nowhere in Germany has the memory of 

 Luther taken stronger hold than in this m'in 



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when he publicly burned the papal bull before 

 the Elster gate of Wittenberg. Clad in his 



ors swarmed into the little town. 



LUTHER'S STATUE IN EIBLEBEN. 



rent of the day was the unveiling of a statue 

 )f Luther in the market-place. It is of bronze, 

 nine feet high, standing upon a low granite 

 plinth. The figure represents the reformer as 

 he was at what may be esteemed the crisis of 



the Reformation as conceived by Luther: God's 

 word against the decrees of the Pope. 



The dawn of the bright November day was 

 ushered in by peals of church-bells. In good 

 time the magistrates walked in procession to 



Ms career, that 10th day of December, 1520, the church of St. Andrew, where Luther had 



