Árdís - 01.01.1954, Side 9

Árdís - 01.01.1954, Side 9
Ársrit Bandalags lúterskra kvenna 7 living. This display of devout character and musical ability proved benefiicial as it gained for him a helpful friend. At the age og 18 he entered the University of Erfurt. Here he decided to enter the Augustinian Monastery. But let us go back and catch glimpses of his childhood home life. His father, Hans Luther, was a copper miner and when Martin was only six months old his parents moved to the neighborhood town of Mansfield—so that it, and not his birth place, was known as the home of his childhood. His father was practical and respectable and struggled upwards through severe hardships to an honorable position. His mother, Margretha, was an earnest, devout, religious woman, who wore on her face the shadow of the struggles with poverty experienced during her early married life—when she carried upon her back from the forest the supply of wood needed for the family fires. Luther’s childhood reminiscences were not those of sunshine, joyful sports or playful pleasures—but rather of harshness and severity, for his parents’ love for their children was expressed in their idea of how God ruled them. The fear of punishment and the hope of reward always being uppermost. Friends report that Hans Luther was found bending over his child’s cradle in fervent prayer and determined that his son should receive the best that his limited means could aíford. He made many sacri- fices and Martin bégan school at an early age. The teachers were rough and cruel and the methods crude and mechanical. Of this he spoke later when he said: “It is a miserable thing when on account of severe punishment, children learn to dislike their parents, or pupils their teachers. Many a clumsy schoolmaster, by blustering and storming, and striking and beating, and by treating children precisely as though he were a hangman, completely ruins children of good disposition and excellent ability.” At the age of 14 a better school was found for him at Magde- burg—where he remained only one year. From there he went to Eisenach, the home of his mother’s family. Thrown upon his own resources for support he sang for alms, at the windows of the wealthier citizens. The sweet voice of the boy, as previously mentioned, attracted Madame Ursula Cotta, the wife of a leading merchant and member of a prominent family of Italian descent, who invited him to her house and finally gave him a home while he remained in Eisenach. In her home young Martin was introduced to an entirely new mode of life. Just at the age when
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