In Germany to the Leipsic Disputation - James Aitken Wylie

science to receive the new wine of heavenly
wisdom. To the hardy and unlettered fishermen of
Galilee was the call addressed, "Come, follow me,
and I will make you fishers of men."
All the leading Reformers, without exception,
were of lowly birth. Luther first saw the light in a
miner's cottage; Calvin was the grandson of a
cooper in Picardy; Knox was the son of a plain
burgess of a Scottish provincial town; Zwingle was
born in a shepherd's hut in the Alps; and
Melancthon was reared in the workshop of an
armourer. Such is God's method. It is a law of the
Divine working to accomplish mighty results by
weak instruments. In this way God glorifies
himself, and afterwards glorifies his servants.
We return to the scenes which we recently left.
Luther departed, amid the trembling of his friends,
to appear before the Legate of Rome. He might be
waylaid on the road, or his journey might end in a
Roman dungeon. Luther himself did not share
these apprehensions. He set out with intrepid heart.
It was a long way to Augsburg, and it had all to be
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