"We see what has been done; but Dr. Luther only knows what he hoped to
do. He said one day--'If I had known at first that men were so hostile
to the Word of God, I should have held my peace. I imagined that they
sinned merely through ignorance.'"
"I suppose, Gretchen," I said, "that he had before him the vision of the
whole of Christendom flocking to adore and serve his Lord, when once he
had shown them how good He is. _We_ see what Dr. Luther has done. _He_
sees what he hoped, and contrasts it with what is left undone."