Here’s a wonderful quotation from Wilhelm Löhe on the encouragement of the stories of the martyrs. HT Michael Wenz
“I assure you, that next to Holy Scripture there is hardly anything,
Epistle Postilla by Wilhelm Löhe on 1 Pt 4:12-19
which affects the soul with such a mighty and uplifting power, and I
want to say force, like the actual stories of suffering of the martyrs
and especially the wonderful obedience, with which they complied to the apostolic commandment, to praise God in suffering.”
