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{Cojitirmed from page 23) 
and this was published shortly after his 
death. This farewell sermon was to a 
considerable extent statistical and his¬ 
torical, and it is the only memorial of 
his pulpit utterances. Doubtless the 
fact that he spent more time in the sad¬ 
dle than in the study is a good reason 
for the scanty written records of his 
work. There is another reason. It was a 
time when men with vast approval 
quoted the scriptural assurance: “For 
the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the 
same hour what ye ought to say.” In 
the face of sentiment like this it was a 
brave man who risked, censure by tak¬ 
ing a manuscript into the pulpit. 
It is to be hoped, however, that never¬ 
theless he avoided the error into which 
too many have fallen—that is trusting 
to “spontaneous combustion” at the 
critical moment, and then failing to have 
the phenomenon occur. And so it is 
that while outside of this one sermon 
hardly a phrase survives, we know that 
through many years a countryside 
resorted in great numbers to hear him. 
Of his appearance and manner there is 
still testimony. He began quietly, but 
warmed to his work until in summer 
when the windows were open the loi¬ 
terer on the dusty highway had no 
difficulty in following the thunder of his 
argument. He had one pulpit manner¬ 
ism that impressed many and is still 
well remembered by the few who re¬ 
main. In moments of excitement he 
was wont to push his coat and shirt 
sleeves up to the elbows, suggestive of 
one who strips for the fray, and then 
his auditors nudged each other and 
whispered “now he's getting the Power.” 
I gather that it was his prayers 
rather than his sermons that most im¬ 
pressed his people. Certainly they were 
not always made up of the conventional 
and decorous phrases that are supposed 
to voice the desires and hopes and 
aspirations of the congregation. Men 
averred that he stood with uplifted face 
and talked with God. He prayed much 
when alone and frequently audibly. Two 
of his church officers are talking to¬ 
gether on a Sunday morning. “We’re 
going to have a great Revival soon,” 
“Why?” “The Dominie was praying in 
the orchard last night.” 
In his preaching he was fortunate in 
combining a sort of flaming zeal along 
with tireless energy and physical vigor 
that knew no bounds. It was an age 
when the Church hardly recognized any 
way of salvation except through the- 
revival meeting and when men craved 
and demanded an emotional experience 
of conversion. As his fame increased 
there was an unceasing demand for his 
services in these meetings throughout 
all the adjoining country. For him the 
one great passion in life was to preach 
from hilltop church to cross roads 
school house and go from one com¬ 
munity to another—careless of roads 
and storm, journeyed this weatherbeaten 
Ambassador of -the Kingdom of God. 
My father has told me how he would 
have some out-appointment for every 
night of the week, and in winter would 
frequently preach in revival meetings 
for six weeks at a time without a break. 
Some campaigning that! These meet¬ 
ings were carried on entirely without 
the machinery of organization, music, 
committees and the like that go to the 
making of a modern revival. They suc¬ 
ceeded or failed almost absolutely be¬ 
cause of the preacher. 
Philip Waiting’s life and spirit and 
career were two sided and in that was 
one secret of his strength. In prayer 
and preaching he was a rapt crusader, 
sounding the trumpet of the Lord. In 
what might be called his other life— 
his non-ecclesiastical life—he was_ a 
man among men—a man of affairs, 
possessed of unusually sound and sane 
judgment. This quality was perfectly 
well recognized. Men came to consult 
him not only about the welfare of their 
souls, but quite as often his advice was 
sought regarding the building of a house 
or the sale of a farm or the making of 
a will. Possibly they may sometimes 
have tired of the flaming preacher, but 
they were at least always glad to turn 
to the man of affairs for counsel and 
guidance. 
In his relations with his people there 
was in some ways something of the 
priest—something of the man who 
really felt himself to be a bishop of 
souls. From> various sources I have 
heard how, when he learned of some 
petty quarrel in his congregation—a 
dispute over a line fence or the trespass 
of cattle or a too astute horse trade, 
or some more subtle disagreement that 
would destroy church unity, it was his 
custom to go to one of the parties, take 
him with him in his buggy wagon and 
drive to the other, and then thrash out 
the matter together—almost always 
with the happiest results. Surely it 
required a man with courage and a sure 
sense of justice and almost God-given 
tact to act as a Board of Conciliation 
for a whole countryside. 
It goes without saying that his pas¬ 
torate of forty years was by no means 
without its discouragements and dis¬ 
cords. Rather early in his ministry— 
about 1832—there broke out in a group 
of Lutheran churches in that part of 
the State a most amazing doctrinal and 
ecclesiastical controversy which cen¬ 
tered about the medieval dogma of 
transubstantiation. It is strange that 
a dogma so unrelated to life and so 
artificial as this could have attracted 
even passing interest as late as a period 
within the memory of living men. 
It is stranger, however, that hard- 
headed farmers—men whose fathers 
fought at Oriskany and Saratoga— 
men the furthest possible removed 
from theological training and who 
supposedly would be interested main¬ 
ly in the price of wheat and the wel¬ 
fare of their cattle—should promptly 
take sides in a matter concerning a 
philosophical abstraction about which 
no man could positively know anything, 
and fight for their position as men fight 
for their hearthstones. 
It was a long and bitter controversy, 
the details of which are buried in the 
ecclesiastical records of the Franckean 
and the Hartwick Synods of the Luth¬ 
eran church, in the forgotten minutes 
of the churches involved and in the 
archives of the civil courts of the 
County of Schoharie. It split Philip 
Weiting’s church through and through, 
but it is good to know that with sound 
sense and clear sanity he stood uncom¬ 
promisingly for the position which 
modern thought has long since vindi¬ 
cated. 
Nevertheless, his party was beaten 
in the courts and the opposition re¬ 
tained the church property. More than 
thirty years after in his farewell ser¬ 
mon he recounted the great controversy 
and estimated that counting the loss of 
property and legal fees, the cost to the 
church was not less than ten thousand 
dollars—a vast sum in a rural commu¬ 
nity eighty years ago. In that sermon 
in a single sentence he stated his opin¬ 
ion of the merits of the case—“This 
was a most wicked and unjust claim 
that we were compelled to pay.” But 
pastor and church survived the great 
heresy, and long before his death all 
parties came to recognize the wicked 
folly of the quarrel. 
Half of Mr. Weiting’s ministry was 
darkened and embittered by doctrinal 
and denominational disputes and quar¬ 
rels which he could not escape, and yet 
left to himself, they would have trou¬ 
bled him very little. His was not the 
type of mind to concern itself greatly 
with dogma. 
He was essentially q preacher of 
righteousness. In a day when most 
laymen and many ministers looked with 
tolerance, and often with approval on 
the use of alcohol, he practiced total 
abstinance and urged it as a cardinal 
virtue. During the dark days of the 
Civil War, when some men were faint¬ 
hearted and some possibly of doubtful 
loyalty, he lifted up his voice to de¬ 
nounce the wickedness of slavery and 
the duty of preserving the Union. 
The years of his ministry were 
crowded with duties and tasks beyond 
belief. His far-flung parish covered 
much of northern Schoharie County. 
In some ways, at least, this was the 
Golden Age of our farm country, and 
the remote sections had a much larger 
population than now. The number of 
familieg in his charge was large and 
the distances were long. As his fame 
increased, people came to covet the 
privilege of being married by him and 
to seek for their dead the honor of 
burial at his hands, and this brought 
to him labors beyond the regular round 
of his parish. 
In his farewell sermon there is some¬ 
thing of the note of honest pride of a 
man who lays down a great task well 
