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in these records ; and I have learned from long ex- 

 perience, that many mistakes and omissions una- 

 voidably occur. 



The above will give you, however, some insight 

 into the lights and shadows in the life of a clergyman. 

 His moments oi enjoyment are succeeded by hours 

 of anxiety and days of sorrow. " Those whom he 

 has baptized and admitted into the Church, he 

 looks upon as his children. If they are pious and 

 happy, the Pastor's heart rejoices ; if they become 

 careless and unfaithful, he is deeply grieved, and 

 when they are separated by death, he mourns over 

 them as a loss in his own family. * * * 



Alluding to the changes which death had wrought 

 during his ministry, from 1815, he tells us: 



When I arrived among you, our country was 

 under the administration of Madison, the fourth 

 President of the United States all but Washington 

 were living these are now all dead ; and, of the 

 nine Presidents that succeeded him, six are also in 

 their graves. 



On my arrival in Charleston, I became a member 

 of the German Friendly Society, which was then 

 composed of nearly one hundred members these 

 have all passed away, and I am now the oldest 

 member. 



Of the few communicants I found in this Church 

 on my arrival, one only is now alive. Of the eleven 

 whose names were signed to my call nine vestry- 

 men and four wardens all are gone to their ac- 

 count. Of the committee of twenty-one, who, in 

 1815, reported on the expediency of building this 

 Church, all are dead. Of the Pastors who occupied 

 the pulpits of our city on my arrival, not one is 

 living. Of the managers of the Bible Society, who 



