especially as he will not cease persecutingthose who at lengthshall attain to the grace of God.
I can tell you nothingabout the wedding at Torgau except that it went off splendidly.
I gave the bride and bridegroomto each other in the evening,and in the morning Dr.
Pommer pronounced the blessingupon them (as I was seized with giddiness and could not). Everythingwas done as is prescribed in the This royalbridegroom is a fine accomplishedyoung man, most temperate and modest, so that I am charmed with his appearance, manners, and behaviour.
Christ maintain and bestow every blessing upon him, to the furtherance of all that is good in him.
Kathie greets you respectfully.
Farewell in the Lord, and pray for me.
Luther asks for German songs.
Grace and peace in Christ,dear As it is some hundreds of years since I either spoke or wrote I have forgotten what I knew, and probablyyou are in the same condition
I hope such fears will justify any mistakes I make, without any good or evil works, for you are a graciouslord towards such offenders,even as you desire similar sins to be leniently treated by your friends.
I had nothingto write about,but did not wish Detzelin with her daughterto leave without letters.
I should have liked to send some mountains of gold,but in late years our Elbe has overflowed and taken all the gold sand with it,leavingonlygraveland sand behind, some of which has got a lodgment in JustusJonas'sbody.
I must alwaysjoke whether sick or well,weak or strong, a sinner and yet justified, well-nighdead and yet alive in As you are seated amid gold and silver streams. send me not poeticaldreams but songs, which will give me great pleasure. You understand.
I wish to talk German, my graciousHerr Wenzel, if it be not too difficult or too tiresome, too high flown or too deep.
I beg of you to ask a boy to collect all German pictures,rhymes, songs, books, etc., which have been painted,composed, and printed by your
German poets and printersthis year, for I have a reason for askingthis.
Latin books here ourselves,but we are busy learningto write German books, which we hope to make so good that every one shall be pleasedwith them.
Lord be with you and yours.
Greet all our people.
Concerning the Congress.
I must write shortlyto you, dear Brother, because for fourteen days I have been prostrate with a dreadful cough, and have hardly begun to recover.
Congress,this is our opinion.
Eisenach as the placeof meeting, beingclose to Hesse.
JuliusMenius is superintendent there.
Sabbath after Easter seems to me the most convenient.
Discuss it with your friends and let me know.
Were the third or any other more convenient for you, we have no objections.Only let Schnepf,and any one else you wish to have, hear through you.
Osiander and the other Nurnberg people,but leave you to inform the May you prosper in Christ