CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Youth and Training. 



Ancestry— Birth— Childhood— Early taste for Natural 

 History— School and College Life— Training for the 

 Ministry— Pastor Braun— Licensed to Preach to 

 Three Churches in his Native County, Rennselaer, 

 N. Y.— Ordination and Change of Field 2b 



CHAPTER n. 



Pastor of St. John's. 



Called to Bt. John's Church, Charleston, S. C— Early 

 Ministry — Laying of the Corner-Stone of the New 

 St. John's— Marriage— John Nicholas Martin- 

 Birth of Daughter— Second visit to his Northern 

 Home 39 



CHAPTER in. 

 The New St. John's. 



Dedication of the New St. John's— Sunday-School 

 Established— Summoned to the North by the Illness 

 of his Father — Family .Joys and Sorrows — The 

 Death of his Father Induces another visit to his 

 Early Home— Letters in 1827 53 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Illness. 



1827— Extreme Ilhiess from a Fever contracted on the 

 "Great Lakes" — Extracts from his Journal — Letter 

 to his Vestr^^ — John G. Schwartz takes Charge of 

 St. John's in the Absence of the Pastor 65 



