In Germany to the Leipsic Disputation - James Aitken Wylie

of delivering Christendom, and he himself, first of
all, must be made to feel how awful is its weight.
But let us see what sort of life it is that Luther
leads in the monastery of the Augustines: a very
different life indeed from that which he had led in
the university!
The monks, ignorant, lazy, and fond only of
good cheer, were incapable of appreciating the
character or sympathizing with the tastes of their
new brother. That one of the most distinguished
doctors of the university should enroll himself in
their fraternity was indeed an honor; but did not his
fame throw themselves into the shade? Besides,
what good would his studies do their monastery?
They would replenish neither its wine-cellar nor its
larder. His brethren found a spiteful pleasure in
putting upon him the meanest offices of the
establishment. Luther unrepiningly complied. The
brilliant scholar of the university had to perform
the duties of porter, "to open and shut the gates, to
wind up the clock, to sweep the church, and to
clean out the cells." Nor was that the worst; when
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