Withdraw, therefore; fling it up!--Fling it up?
A valuable article to fling up; fling it up is the last resource.

Nay, in fact, to whom will you fling it up?
The Prussian Ritters themselves are getting greatly divided on the point; and at last on all manner of points, Protestantism ever more spreading among them.

As for the German Brethren, they and their comfortable Teutschmeister, who refused to partake in the dangerous adventure at all; are they entitled to have much to say in the settlement of it now ?-- Among others, or as chief oracle of all, Luther was consulted.

"What would you have me do towards reforming the Teutsch Order ?" inquired Albert of his oracle.

Luther's answer was, as may be guessed, emphatic.
"Luther," says one reporter, "has in his Writings declared the Order to be 'a thing serviceable neither to God nor man,' and the constitution of it 'a monstrous, frightful, hermaphroditish, neither secular nor spiritual constitution.'" [C.