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Excerpt from An Oration, Pronounced at Middlebury, Before the Associated Alumni of the College, on the Evening of Commencement: August 17th, 1825
Scent of the uplifted and impending blow. A strong presumption m favour of the correctness of these positions, is furnished by a subsequent page of history. During the dark ages, or rather at their expiration, religion and letters revived together. They had been buried in the same grave, and they were resuscitated by the more than magick touch of the same finger. The name of Martin Luther will be venerated while learn ing and religion shall maintain their existence and authority among men. He was eminently quali fied for the work which Providence had assigned him. The story of this man, will never lose its interest. He was educated for the profession of the law, but an act of God unsettled all his for mer purposes, and gave a new direction to the whole tenour of his future life. As he was walk ing with a fellowstudent in the fields, he was stricken by a flash of lightning to the ground, and his companion instantly expired at his side. This providence affected his spirits, and under the in fluence of the prevailing fashion of the age, he retired to a convent to spend his remaining days. Here he met with a Latin Bible, the first that had ever greeted his eye. This Bible gave liberty to Luther, and Luther, with this Bible in his hand.
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