A rose colored world is something we are led to be expected. Certainly Christ had a perfectly easy time of living and dying, as much as America just happened to be with interstate highways and air travel from 1776 onward.
I mention Johann Aurifaber as an example, and of course you have never heard of this German in the least. He was born in 1519 AD. This goldsmith was sent to the University of Wittenburg in 1537 by Count Albrecht, as that is how one lived in the feudal world, one had a benefactor and then one advanced.
In 1540, he was recalled from the University to act as tutor to the Count's children. By 1544, he was army Chaplain to the Germans fighting against the French.
In 1545, he was sent back to the University for special study in theological training, and it was then that he attached himself to the old man, who was now dying, in the legendary Martin Luther of the Reformation.
From the time Martin Luther died in 1546, Aurifaber began vigorously collecting the Table Talk of Martin Luther, and expounded upon it after Dr. Luther's death in collecting the opinions and advice he gave to his friends.
Aurifaber would again be army Chaplain to the soldiers of Johann Freidrich of Saxony, and would find himself imprisoned for 6 months in a Saxon prison.
In 1551, he became court preacher at Weimar, but by 1562, he was removed from office and embarked upon publishing the works of Martin Luther not already collected.
In 1566, he was called as pastor at Erfurt where it was recorded as an epitaph he had many more troubles before his death on November 18th, 1575.
By all information, here was a good man. He was dutiful in serving the royals of Germany, chosen to tutor their children, and aided the military men in need of service.
His kindness to Dr. Martin Luther in his last months was Christian, and for Christ, Johann Aurifaber, would assemble the works of Martin Luther, so the Inspiration which transformed Europe would not be lost.
Yet the political structure never rewarded him. The military never offered any assistance, and in being a minister for Christians he was only troubled and never rewarded.
His greatest gift to humanity was assembling Luther's Table Talk, but even in that, he has been lost to the public, and editors in their own cult of religion have done nothing but through the centuries but hack up Luther's work to fit their own bias.
It is always an amazing thing in how a good person, doing the right things, being a Christian, is assailed non stop by satan. Joan of Arc being an example of the Christian Soldier betrayed by her own nation, people, king, army and government for doing what was right.
For 56 years this Christian labored, in what appears in vain. Few have been those who have even noted who this man was. His reward is in Heaven, but it is an amazing thing to witness how satan, after Martin Luther was raised up, roused it's minions to hinder Johann Aurifaber and to bastardize the works of Martin Luther which he collected and published.
Nothing appeared that easy for Johann Aurifaber and those things that did appear were taken from him soon enough.
Onward Christian Soldier.
agtG
Divers Discourses touching Religion, and other Main Points of Doctrine; as also many notable Histories, and all sorts of Learning, Comforts, Advices, Prophecies, Admonitions, Directions, and Instructions; and how the same Book was, by God’s Providence, discovered lying under the Ground, where it had lain hid Fifty-two Years; and was a few years since sent over to the said Captain Henry Bell, and by him translated out of the High German into the English Tongue.
