Not Luther, but Christ
By Editor
Not Luther, but Christ.—The Catholic Mirror is publishing a long-continued "Letter to a Protestant Friend" against Martin Luther, full of quotations, justly and unjustly used, tho perhaps not intentionally unjustly, and for the evident purpose of thus overthrowing Protestantism. The object and hope of the writer are vain. Luther made many mistakes, we freely admit; but they were the result of his education in the Roman Catholic Church. But true Protestantism is not based on Luther or any other man or men, but on Jesus Christ and the rock of his Word. All Protestantism that is not thus founded, that is based upon men, is only Roman Catholicism in another form. In essence, it is the same, based on human merit.