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Luther’s Little Instruction Book (Small Catechism) has been translated into many of the languages of the world. Williston Walker in his History of the Christian Church describes it as “one of the noblest monuments of the Reformation”. Of it, Luther writes,The Catechism is the Bible of the laymen. In it the entire body of Christian doctrine, which every Christian must know in order to be saved, is contained...Luther himself reviewed the Catechism:I, too, am a theologian who has attained a fairly good practical knowledge and experience of Holy Scriptures through various dangers. But I do not so glory in this gift as not to join my children daily in prayerfully reciting the Catechism, that is, the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer and meditating on them with an attentive heart. I do not merely pass over the words hurriedly, but I carefully observe what the individual word means... For God gave the Word that we should impress it on ourselves as Moses says (Deut 6.7), and practice it. Without this practice our souls become rusty, as it were, and we lose ourselves. (from Luther’s exposition of Psalm 126.)The deplorable condition in which I found religious affairs during

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Author

Martin Luther, Henry Eyster Jacobs

Publisher

lutheranlibrary.org

Published

2020

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Christianity, Religion