82.] and was not otherwise afraid of outlay, in the Reich's Politics, or in what seemed needful: If there is a harvest ahead, even a distant one, it is poor thrift to be stingy of your seed-corn! Joachim was always a conspicuous Public Man, a busy Politician in the Reich: stanch to his kindred, and by no means blind to himself or his own interests.

Stanch also, we must grant, and ever active, though generally in a cautious, weighty, never in a rash swift way, to the great Cause of Protestantism, and to all good causes.

He was himself a solemnly devout man; deep awe-stricken reverence dwelling in his view of this Universe.

Most serious, though with a jocose dialect commonly, having a cheerful wit in speaking to men.

Luther's Books he called his SEELENSCHATZ (Soul's-treasure): Luther and the Bible were his chief reading.