John 0. Schwartz. 89 



Rev. S. A. Mealy reported to his spiritual father 

 that the church in Savannah was prospering. 



Tidings came from the congregation at Ebenezer, 

 Ga., that their much loved pastor, C. F. Bergman, 

 was doing a great work in their midst. 



Mt, Calvary Church, Edgefield District, St. Paul's 

 Church, Newberry, and the Church in Columbia, 

 had all recently been erected and dedicated. 



Dark clouds were, however, rising to cast their 

 shadows over this bright prospect. 



The following summer, (1831), Professor Schwartz' 

 letters tell of failing health. Suddenly he was 

 attacked with a violent fever, which at first appa- 

 rently yielded to the physicians treatment, but soon 

 returned, with increased violence. Human skill 

 brought no relief, and on the 26th of August, 1831, 

 at the age of twenty-four, the life and labors of this 

 young servant of Christ were closed on earth. His 

 spiritual father wept and prayed while he lingered 

 on the confines of earth, and when the spirit had 

 ascended to God, it was he who preached the funeral 

 discourse that embalmed the memory of the gifts, 

 the virtues, and the attainments of the beloved 

 Schwartz. 



Standing at the grave of Schwartz, the tidings 

 reached him from Ebenezer, that another of his 

 spiritual sons, Rev. Christopher F. Bergman had 

 been smitten, and was dead. Revs. Jacob Wingard 

 and Daniel Dreher, all young ministers of great 

 promise, were, in rapid succession, called from the 

 Church militant to the Church triumphant. In 



