PUBLISHERS' NOTICE. THIS work, in its original form, has had a wide circulation in many lands, and has been owned and blessed of God to many souls. Interest in the subject it presents has become deep and extensive, and is daily increasing; and desire has been often expressed that the book itself might be freed from whatever is least useful, and brought within a compass of size and cost which would induce many more to possess it, and read it for themselves, and enable others, who wish to do so, to keep, without too much expense, a number of copies to lend or present, as occasion may serve for doing good in this way. At our suggestion, the Author has himself made a thorough revision of the book, with these objects in view. LUDGATE HILL, THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE. PART I.-WHAT IT IS. I. MARTIN LUTHER. HEN a little boy, Martin carried the faggots for his father, John Luther, to kindle the fire in his little iron-smelting furnace in Germany. God His designed him to become the bearer of fuel for his own great fire of the Reformation, to smelt the hearts of millions, and recast the life of the world. But as yet this boy's own heart and his own life were in the crude and corrupt state of nature, hard and unmalleable as the ore of the mine, and as full of impurities, to be expelled only by the fires of Divine love. mother loved, and pitied, and indulged him; but his father was severe, and never spared the rod. That he was not an angel in his youth we may know, for he tells of himself that he was whipped fifteen times in one day in his first school. But all this did not beat grace into his heart, though it may have beaten letters into his head. He made brilliant progress in study, and at twenty years of |