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Several enthusiasts, from various parts of the country, mostly ignorant, and little acquainted with the Gospel, assumed the title of prophets, and violently attacked every institution connected with Rome the priests in some places were assailed with abuse as they were performing the ceremonies of their Church and these men, at length, coming to Wittemburg, so worked on some of the students that the churches were entered, the altars torn up, and the images carried away and broken and burnt.
"He encountered you on his journey to Wittemburg, to which place he has just returned from his long residence in the Castle of Wartburg. You had with you a little `schutz, who, escaping when you were attacked by our people, whose livery he knew, watched the direction in which you were taken.
Little Thomas Platter made great progress in his studies, and bid fair to grow up an earnest Christian and industrious man, amply paying Eric for the care he bestowed on him. Hans Bosch, when his young master was about to return home, begged that he might come back with him to Wittemburg.
When, therefore, his son Eric came home, and expressed a strong desire to migrate to Wittemburg, that he might pursue his studies under the learned professors of that University, Drs. Martin Luther, Melancthon, Jerome Schurff, Jonas Armsdorff, Augustin Schurff, and others, he made no objection.
But as to Dr Martin's mode of life, I shall be able to tell you more about it when I have been to Wittemburg." Dame Margaret sighed deeply, she had not yet quite said her say, that is, what Father Nicholas had told her to say.
He had a long interview with his wife, and not without a struggle did he yield to Dr Martin's request; but the better spirit prevailed, he acknowledged himself in the wrong, entreated Eric's pardon, and having given him a farewell feast, escorted him on his way until they came in sight of Wittemburg. "Truly, my master," observed Hans, "the Gospel, of these Wittemburg doctors is a wonderful thing.
He has heard of your capture on your way to Wittemburg, and of your detention here, and he writes earnestly that you may be liberated forthwith, and allowed to proceed on your journey.
He never altogether got rid of some of the notions he had imbibed in the cloister. Step by step he advanced as the light dawned on him not without groans and agitations of mind yielding up point after point in the system to which he had once adhered. Eric was present at one of the first of the important series of sermons which the great Doctor preached on his return to Wittemburg.
The fortresses of Torgau, Erfurt and Wittemburg opened their gates to the victors who, having crossed the Elbe at several points Augereau's corps crossing near Dessau headed for Berlin. Napoleon stopped at Potsdam, where he visited the tomb of Frederick the Great; then he went to Berlin where, contrary to his usual practice, he wished to make a triumphal entry.
"It was Dr Martin notwithstanding that," exclaimed the little Platter; "you will see, my masters, when we get to Wittemburg, you will see." This incident added very much to the interest of the journey. They rode on for some leagues, when, as they were not far off from the place where they purposed resting for the night, they saw a band of horsemen approaching them.
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