Luther by a Lutheran
In re-reading Gerberding's Way of Salvation, he mentioned a Pastor Reuben Weiser. Specifically he referenced a booklet written against Nevin, and how his views changed, but I was not aware of this 19th century American Lutheran author and looked to see what was available.
The answer is not much. But I found this biography of Luther from 1847 (this is the 1853 printing though). I would not rank this with the great treatments of Luther's life. Much of it is based on D'Aubigne, although there are other sources as well that he lists. It does not live up to modern standards of documentation - only two footnotes in the whole work.
It is arguably more of a Hagiography than a Biography, but even so, it lets us see what was important to Lutherans in this country a hundred and sixty years ago.
The text was quite clean at Internet Archive - in most places. I did remove a few obvious typos (like the word "I" repeated at the end of one line and the beginning of the next) but was not consistent in this.
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Ken McGuire
The Gospel is not ... a "new law," on the contrary, ... a "new life." - William Julius Mann
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Thanks for your effort and sharing, Ken!
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