Luther - Works of Martin Luther Vol. 6 - Righteousness is Love

But one thing out of the great variety of all that he has done in this greatfield of Church work seems to have been ignored, and that is his adviceconcerning uniformity of practice.30When all the criticisms have been made; when all of our dislikes for someof the things for which he stood have been recorded; when sometimes wefail to appreciate his motives and cannot understand how he could be sovacillating and uncertain; when all of his mistakes have been enumeratedcarefully and deliberately, and sometimes maliciously— when all of this issaid and done, Luther must still be accorded a recognition in thingsliturgical which is both fair to him and to the great tasks he set out to doand his performance of those tasks. He still lives in the imprint that he hasmade upon the worship of the Church.PAUL ZELLER STRODACH