Children of the Reformation – Are We?

Again we are about to commemorate what the undersigned considers to be the greatest event within the Church since the days of the apostles. God, who alone does His work throughout the ages, ac­complishes this work by means of the weakest instruments and when His time is come. The Lord has chosen the poor, the base, the ignoble, the despised of this world. Hence, the reformer, Zwingli, emerges from an Alpine shepherds hut; Melanchton comes from an armorer’s shop; and Luther is born in the...