Luther, Doctor Martin--1483-1546--the great instrument of God, father

poet and a learned jurist, who lived at Hamburg; his hymns, which resemble those of Gellert, were published in 1770.

and master of the art of hymn-writing, and of German poetry. Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein,' here selected, is a free paraphrase of the 12th Psalm, a call of the Church, founded on God's word, for aid and protection against those who despised and corrupted it, written in 1523.