p. 72 | Call no Man Master

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1875

Call no Man Master.

“One is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.” Matt. 23 : 8.

It appears from the following statement that the followers of Martin Luther have paid no attention to his injunction in regard to a name. Luther says:—

“I beseech you above all things, not to use my name: not to call yourselves Lutherans, but Christians. What is Luther? The doctrine is not mine. . . . The papists have justly a party name; because, unsatisfied with Christ’s name and doctrine, they will be papist too. Let them be called after the pope, their master. I am and will be no man’s master. In common with my brethren, I hold the only universal doctrine of Christ, who alone is my master.”—Life of Luther by M. Gelzer, p. 168.