Sincere Catholics, who love and honor the ancient religion, shrink with horror at the spectacle offered on every side.

Criminals buying Paradise for money, monks spending the money thus paid in gaming houses, taverns, and brothels; this seems, to those who have studied their Testaments, a different scheme of salvation from the one promulgated by Christ.

There has evidently been a departure from the system of earlier apostles.

Innocent conservative souls are much perplexed; but, at last, all these infamies arouse a giant to do battle with the giant wrong.

Martin Luther enters the lists, all alone, armed only with a quiver filled with ninety-five propositions, and a bow which can send them all over Christendom with incredible swiftness.