TABLE OF CONTENTS.

l. Luther Worship
2. Luther Hatred
3. Luther Blemishes
4. Luther's Task
5. The Popes in Luther's Time
6. Luther's Birth and Parentage
7. Luther's Great Mistake
8. Luther's Failure as a Monk
9. Professor Luther, D. D.
10. Luther's "Discovery" of the Bible
11. Rome and the Bible
12. Luther's Visit at Rome
13. Pastor Luther
14. The Case of Luther's Friend Myconius
15. Luther's Faith without Works
16. The Fatalist Luther
17. Luther a Teacher of Lawlessness
18. Luther Repudiates the Ten Commandments
19. Luther's Invisible Church
20. Luther on the God-given Supremacy of the Pope
21. Luther the Translator of the Bible
22. Luther a Preacher of Violence against the Hierarchy
23. Luther, Anarchist and Despot All in One
24. Luther the Destroyer of Liberty of Conscience
25. "The Adam and Eve of the New Gospel of Concubinage"
26. Luther an Advocate of Polygamy
27. Luther Announces His Death
28. Luther's View of His Slanderers

1. Luther Worship.

Catholic writers profess themselves shocked by the unblushing veneration
which Luther receives from Protestants. Such epithets as "hero of the
Reformation," "angel with the everlasting Gospel flying through the
midst of heaven," "restorer of the Christian faith," grate on Catholic
nerves. Luther's sayings are cited with approval by all sorts of men.
Men feel that their cause is greatly strengthened by having Luther on
their side. Luther's name is a name to conjure with. Hardly a great man
has lived in the last four hundred years but has gone on record as an
admirer of Luther. Rome, accordingly, cries out that Luther is become
the uncanonized saint of Protestantism, yea, the deified expounder of
the evangelical faith.

Coming from a Church that venerates and adores and prays to--you must
not say "worships"--as many saints as there are days in the calendar,
this stricture is refreshing. Saints not only of questionable sanctity,
but of doubtful existence have been worshiped--beg pardon! venerated--
by Catholics. What does the common law say about the prosecution coming
into court with clean hands? If there is such a thing among Protestants
as "religious veneration" of Luther, what shall we call the veneration
of Mary among Catholics? Pius IX, on December 8, 1854, proclaimed the
"immaculate conception," that is, the sinlessness of Mary from the very
first moment of her