[Vermont Crank]

The keynote of his whole movement of Reformation is sounded in the Latin line he wrote on a piece of plaster at a banquet, "where the Princes enter- tained him magnificently and regaled him with the finest Rhenish wine," and where, as Seckendorf tells, "he drank like a true German"

'Testis eram vivus, moriens tua mors ero Papa."

"Living I was your pest; dying, O Pope, I shall be your death."

The merry guests, delighted with his humor, sat down, and Luther "continued to vent his wit in sarcasms against his natural enemies, the pope, the emperor, the monks, and also the devil, whom he did not forget, to the delight of the frivolous and bibulous company." As the boisterous and irreverent crowd rose from the table, a report of the death of Paul. reached them. Luther, delighted at the news, cried out, exultingly, 'This is the fourth Pope I have buried: I shall bury many more of them." He that dwelleth in heaven, however, laughed at the prediction. Luther was taken suddenly ill and in spite of all the attention of his assembled guests in a few hours he was called to the judgment seat of God to render an account of his long and bitter opposition to the Church and its legitimate representative.

Living and dying as a hate-filled, vulgar, fat, violent, drunk may be "godly" to some, but I would think that even a protestant would be a mite embarrassed upon learning the facts about Luther; prolly not though

[boatbums]

If you don't care enough to post the sources for your biased, one-sided denigration of ONE man, who was only one of many reformers who set out to right what Rome had desecrated of the visible Christian church, I have no need to read them much less try to defend against them. Preaching to that choir again???