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Evening Star, Issue 17696, 24 June 1921, Page 6

Dr EJdcr lectured at the University on Wednesday evening, his subject—‘ The Sequel to the Lutheran Reformation ’—being the penultimate address in the course of University extension lectures. Luther’s teaching, he showed, supplied the mental stimulus for the peasants’ revolt of 152425. It was cruelly suppressed, and; the peasantry turned from the Church of Luther, who had leagued himself with the oppressors. Luther saved his Church by alliance with the Princes of Germany, but ceased to be the leader of the German people. Henceforth he was merely the prophet of a sect, an upholder of the doctrine of the Divine right of kings; the absolute princes of Germany were supreme in the Lutheran Church. Lutheranism was established in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The three countries united from 1597 under Denmark until the Swedes rebelled in 1521 under Gustavus Ynsa, the ancestor of the famous Gustavus Adolphus, the “Lion of the North,” the leader of Northern 't Protestantism in the ’thirty years’ War. In England the Pveformation R&a a political ns much as a religious movement, and the final settlement of Elizabeth was a compromise between extreme Protestantism and extreme Roman Catholicism. The final lecture of the course will be delivered next Wednesday, vrhen the subject of lecture will bo ‘Zwingli and Calvin.’ An Auckland telegram states that the Hon. Tuivakana, Premier of Tonga, and iis wife’are passengers for Sydney by tho Sfalcnra. He is on a trip to recruit his health. .The Premier is emphatic that Tonga’s desire is to remain ns_ at present. She has no desire to join any federation of the Western Pacific Islands. Ho returns via Auckland in the spring.