A Letter from Martin Luther
KNOW a lovely, pretty garden where there are many children. They wear golden coats, and pick up fine apples and pears, cherries and plums under the trees. They sing and jump, and are very merry. They also have beautiful little horses with bridles of gold and saddles of silver. I asked the man who
owned the garden who the children. were. He answered, "These are the children who gladly pray and study and are good." Then I said, " Dear man, I also have a son named Hans Luther. Wouldn’t he like to come into the garden and eat such beautiful apples and pears and ride such fine horses and play with these children!" Then the man. said, "If he prays and
studies gladly, and is good, he too shall come into the garden, and Lippus and Jost with him. And when they are all here they shall have whistles and drums and lutes, and all sorts of things to make music with, and they shall dance, and shoot with little crossbows." — (A letter from Martin Luther, quoted in the series " Letters to Children," prepared by Dorothy Neal. 2YA, February 16.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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195A Letter from Martin Luther New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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