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90 Phil. Wolf rum and Zelle67 have also made us better acquainted with them in respect to their melodies and musical setting.

Kawerau, Althaus and Rietschel devoted themselves to the study of Luther's Order of Baptism. Kawerau's study especially is of lasting value, because he brought to light quite a number of the "Ordines Baptismatis" of the end of the Mediæval Period and compared them carefully with Luther's Order of 1523.67

Luther's conception of married life and his views about betrothing and the solemnization of marriage were often treated before 1883; in our period H. von Schubert, in his book "Die-evangelische Trauung, ihre geschichtliche Ent- wicklung und gegenwaertige Bedeutung, 1890," has again taken up this question.

In 1524 Luther called upon the council members of the German cities to establish schools. It is the most thrilling appeal that was ever made in the interest of higher education and Christian training of the youth. "It is everywhere well understood," says Luther, "what is to be done in the way of protection against Turks, wars and floods, and what has to be expended annually for arms, good roads and levees; so much money has heretofore been squandered for indulgences, masses and pilgrimages. Why not give part of this for educational purposes and a training of the young? If you give one 'gulden' for the war against the Turks, a hundred are not too much, if spent to educate a good Christian." On this writing Albrecht68 published a minute and valuable study, which became still more valuable through the fact that Schiele68 later, starting out from an opposition justifiable in itself, tried to undervalue Luther's service in the interest of the public school through gross exaggeration. Of course, it