Excerpt from Martin Luther: An Address Delivered in the Central Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, Nov, 9

Christian friends and fellow-citizens:

In consenting to speak to you this evening, on the subject assigned me by the Presbytery - Martin Luther - I confess to a sudden feeling of responsibility. I ask myself this simple question: what would, you if your character were to be traversed to-night - what would you want the man who spoke about you to say? I answer:

Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice -

Now, though Martin Luther is dead, his name lives, and he has a reputation , and he has a reputation not to be misrepresented, but to be drawn, if drawn at all, as it was, for I believe that he had the courage in this respect of Cromwell, that if he had a mole on his face, he wanted the artist to put the mole into the picture, and yet he did not wish to be stained with false colors. It is really a very serious thing to undertake to speak about one's neighbor - about the dead - a man, over whose grave and work there have been great controversies - controversies that interest every one of us. But, while I think the undertaking is serious, and difficult, my mind is thoroughly resolved that, I shall deal honestly with the subject, according to my knowledge of it.

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