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has lent a willing ear to the call of the Board of 

 Directors, and will he with us in Novemher next." 



Dr. Hazelius was a native of Silesia, in the king- 

 dom of Prussia, and a graduate from a Moravian 

 Theological Seminary in that kingdom. In 1809, 

 he had united himself with the Lutheran Cliurch, 

 and in 1815, was elected Theological Professor at 

 Hartwick Seminary, N. Y. After fifteen years of 

 efficient service, he accepted a Professorship at Get- 

 tysburg Seminary, Penn. In November, 1833, he 

 arrived in Charleston, on his way to Lexington, S. C. 



He lingered a few days in the home of the Pastor 

 of St. John's. As they took counsel together with 

 regard to the Master's work in a field of labor new 

 to the Professor of Theology, the hearts of the two 

 were knit together. The gentle, learned, spiritual, 

 but timid and retiring Hazelius turned confid- 

 ingly to his friend, whose self-reliant nature and 

 buoyant temperament, seemed just the complement 

 necessary for success, in building up the waste 

 places in the Lutheran Church, South. They cor- 

 responded and cxclianged visits for nearly twenty 

 years, until the death of Dr. Hazelius, which oc- 

 curred in 1852. 



It is pleasant to dwell upon a friendship so sweet 

 and pure, founded upon mutual confidence and re- 

 spect. 



In 1834, 1835, 1836. we find a voluminous, almost 

 overwhelming, correspondence on church matters. 

 Although the Synod of South Carolina and adjacent 

 States had greatly prospered, yet serious difficulties 



