In Germany from the Leipsic Disputation to the Diet at Worms - James Aitken Wylie

Frederick of Saxony had declined what the two
most powerful sovereigns in Europe were so eager
to obtain. On the 28th of June, 1519, the electoral
conclave, in their scarlet robes, met in the Church
of St. Bartholomew, in Frankfort-on-the-Main, and
proceeded to the election of the new emperor.
The votes were unanimous in favor of Charles
of Spain. It was more than a year (October, 1520)
till Charles arrived in Germany to be crowned at
Aix-la-Chapelle; and meanwhile the regency was
continued in the hands of Frederick, and the shield
was still extended over the little company of
workers at Wittemberg, who were busily engaged
in laying the foundations of an empire that would
long outlast that of the man on whose head the
diadem of the Caesars was about to be placed.
The year that elapsed between the election and
the coronation of Charles was one of busy and
prosperous labor at Wittemberg. A great light
shone in the midst of the little band there gathered
together, namely, the Word of God. The voice from
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