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 us to manage alone. It must be committed to God in earnest prayer, for it is God’s concern, not ours. We are impotent. Pray, pray, and let Him bear the burden. I commit you to God. Remember me to your dear husband. MARTIN LUTHER.

Luther’s Letters to Women.

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TO NICOLAS HAUSMANN About the Strassburg people.

February 2, 1531.

There is nothing new, dear Nicolas, to tell you. The Strassburgers have gone over to the Swiss, and will oppose the Emperor Karl. I have been a true prophet, for I always said that the Sacramentarians were filled with a spirit of secret sedition. If God do not prevent, a new Munzer may arise among them, to their own hurt, and they will be punished because of their contempt for the gospel.

There is a rumor that the Turks are approaching, and another that Charles is returning to Spain. The Papists are quite alarmed, and yet will not search their own hearts.

England is embracing the Reformation, and the King looks at it through his fingers. The Cardinal, who was worshipped as a demigod in England, nay, over half Europe, has been condemned to lifelong captivity. In France and Spain God’s Word is also looking up. The Sacramentarians hate us more than ever since the Marburg Conference, and are sorry we have not been caught in their net. Pray for me.Farewell. MARTIN LUTHER. (Walch, 5:21. 1238.)

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TO THE TOWN COUNCIL OF GOTTINGEN Luther announces that the two preachers refuse to come.

March 1, 1531.

To the wise Mayor and Council in Gottingen. Gracious sirs and good friends, grace and peace in