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been convened for the purpose of ordaining me. It 

 was held in the church where I had been baptized 

 in infancy. Without returning home, I proceeded 

 on m}' way to Charleston, S. C, and, on the 10th of 

 January, arrived in the city. '' The means of trav- 

 eling were very different from what they are now in 

 the days of steamers and railroads. The roads were 

 almost impassable ; as an evidence of this I would 

 state that, with the exception of a Sunday, on 

 which I preached for Dr. Mayer, of Philadelphia, I 

 came in the regular stage line, which travelled day 

 and night, and arrived at Charleston on the evening 

 of the twenty-ninth day after leaving Dutchess 

 County, which is a hundred miles north of the city 

 of New York. In the meanwhile, our vehicles were 

 either broken or overturned eight times on the 

 journey. 



" AVe were in the midst of a three years' war with 

 the most powerful of foreign nations. Fearful bat- 

 tles had occurred on our Northern frontiers, on the 

 ocean, and on the lakes. The traces of devastation 

 and death were visible in the half-covered graves 

 along the highway between Baltimore and Wash- 

 ington. The blackened walls of the Capitol at 

 Washington, and the destruction in every part of the 

 city, presented an awful picture of the horrors of 

 war." 



On his arrival in Charleston he was welcomed by 

 a deputation from St. John's Lutheran Church. 

 The President of the congregation, Col. Jacob Sass, 

 took him to his own liouse. His good wife and 

 himself made him perfectly comfortable, and treated 

 him as an honored guest. No member of St. 

 John's exceeded Col Sass in energy and faithfulness. 

 His pastor described him thus : '^ He was one of the 



