History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . m Friedrickstadt, Danish border, because of Napoleonsblockade, arriving in August. After a term in school, he madehats for his uncle, becoming so adept that he could finish sixteena week, twice an average workmans amount. Being fond of singing, he frequented Zion German LutheranChurch, Fourth and Cherry Streets, where, in 1809, he wasespecially touched by a sermon by the pastor, Dr. Helmuth, whowas also from Helmstadt.
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . m Friedrickstadt, Danish border, because of Napoleonsblockade, arriving in August. After a term in school, he madehats for his uncle, becoming so adept that he could finish sixteena week, twice an average workmans amount. Being fond of singing, he frequented Zion German LutheranChurch, Fourth and Cherry Streets, where, in 1809, he wasespecially touched by a sermon by the pastor, Dr. Helmuth, whowas also from Helmstadt. He then became a Sunday schoolteacher, a member of the Mosheim Society, whose object wasreligious and educational training in the German tongue, and196 HHYIiR finally, with others, a student for the ministry, under the train-ing of the pastor and Rev. F. D. Shaeffer. His first sermon,June, 1813, had as text Matt. 6:6. Along with his studies, hetaught a school in Southwark, Philadelphia, and later com-mended the training thus to be secured to all young pastors. That he might enter the University at Halle, he voyaged toHamburg in the ship Washington, which was stopped and. REV. JOHN CHRISTIAN FREDERICK I1KVER searched for Napoleon who had escaped from Elba early in1815. Fearing he might be forced into the army to fight theFrench if he went home, he wrote a letter to his family inanswer to which his brother Carl came and promised if Fritzshould be drafted, to go in his stead. Halle University closed,her students organizing a military company. Hence he and hisbrother Heinrich went to Goettingen. Here news came of 197 MISSIONARY WORK OF ALLEGHANY SYNOD Bluechers defeat, June 15, at Ligne, and a regiment of studentswas to be organized; but before they marched away, all gloomwas turned to rejoicing by news of Napoleons overthrow atWaterloo. The fear of his Philadelphia friends that he would be wronglyinfluenced by rationalism was groundless. Although his brotherwas won to their side,
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