36 John Bacliman. 



In the Fall of this year, with renewed strength 

 and energy, he returned to his post of duty in 

 Charleston. 



Col. Sass again claimed the young pastor as his 

 guest, and his grandson, Jacob Schirmer (then a lad), 

 was at hand to offer his services to his pastor. In 

 his old age, Mr. Schirmer used to tell us, with much 

 glee, l< And he did make use of me. I was the 

 bearer of his love letters, when he was engaged in 

 marriage to Miss Harriet Martin." In 1816 this 

 happy union was consummated. 



Miss Martin was the granddaughter of Rev. John 

 Nicholas Martin, the fourth pastor of St. John's 

 Lutheran Church, Charleston. 



When the quaint little wooden church was dedi- 

 cated, June 27th, 1764, on St. John Baptist's Day, 

 under the name of St. John's Church, Pastor Martin 

 was the minister in charge. He filled the pulpit 

 acceptably for three years. In 1767, he resigned his 

 charge. 



The Patriarch Missionary of the Lutheran Church, 

 H. M. Muhlenberg, in August, 1773, heard Rev. 

 Martin preach an afternoon sermon in St. John's, 

 (Rev. Daser was then pastor), Muhlenberg's droll 

 criticism of the sermon is preserved in his " Journal." 



" Rev. Martin preached from the text, ' My house 

 shall be called a house of prayer.' He showed how 

 we ought to go to the house of God, and how to be- 

 have outside of it. In the first part, he proposed 

 six steps to lead us into it ; the second part was 

 intended for the other subject. All was ingeniously 



