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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 29, 16 November 1883, Page 23

The Feast of the Fourth Centenary of Martin Luther, which will take place on November 10, will be an occasion for the glorification of that apostate monk and abuse of the Catholic Church. The Catholic students" of the University of Wurzburg made a prompt and sharp reply to the invitation extended to them to be present at the festival. They denied with "scorn the asseition that Luther had opened the way for the development of national qualities that make human progress, and pointed proudly to the patriotic achievements of millions of Catholics during a thousand years before Luther was heard of. They regretted that the organizers of the feast saw fit to apply the words " slavery of conscience and intellect " to that voluntary obedience which unites Catholics to the Roman Church. They declared that this obedience never hindered them from being cheerful and friendly, never interfered with their scientific studies, nor prevented them from living on good terms with members of other religious denominations. On the contrary, it increased all the best qualities of head and heart. The Luther fanatics got more than they expected from the sturdy students of Wurzburg. It is a bad time to parade Luther as a hero, a patriot, a conservator of society. The results of his teaching are too evident, and the failure of Protestantism to preserve morality, to preserve anything but a protest against the truth, is too plain,--iVew York Freeman's Journal.