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Title: Epistle Sermons, Vol. II
Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost

Author: Martin Luther

Translator: John Nicholas Lenker

Release Date: March 31, 2009 [EBook #28464]

Language: English

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LUTHER'S
EPISTLE SERMONS
EPIPHANY, EASTER AND PENTECOST

TRANSLATED WITH THE HELP OF OTHERS
BY
PROF. JOHN NICHOLAS LENKER, D.D.

AUTHOR OF "LUTHERANS IN ALL LANDS," TRANSLATOR OF LUTHER'S WORKS INTO
ENGLISH AND PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL LUTHERAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

VOL. II.
(_Volume VIII of Luther's Complete Works_.)

THIRD THOUSAND

_The Luther Press_
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., U.S.A.
1909.

_Dedication_

To All, Pastors and Laymen, who appreciate the true place of Luther's
Writings in the Evangelization of Europe, and are interested in the
Evangelization of the world, this volume of Easter and Pentecost
Epistle Sermons of the English Luther is gratefully and prayerfully
dedicated.

Copyright, 1909, by J. N. LENKER.

_Foreword_

The Evangelization of the World is being accomplished more rapidly
than we think. Three mighty movements are constantly at
work--Reformation, Heathen Missions and Emigration or Colonization. By
the Reformation Europe was evangelized; by Heathen Missions Asia and
Africa are being evangelized and by Emigration or Colonization North
and South America and Australia have been to a large extent
evangelized. In "Lutherans In All Lands," published in 1893, and in
the introduction to the volume on St. Peter's Epistles of the English
Luther, we emphasized the relation of the Evangelical-Lutheran church
and of Luther's writings to the evangelization of the world through
these three movements. In view of the recent marvelous growth in
interest in Heathen Missions and the false ideas about Luther's
relation to this theme, the following may be in place here in this
volume of Easter and Penteco