. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. J. Gautenbein. I). I).. [859-18 5Rev. Robert Lisberger. David B. Ernst. Jonathan E. Smith. , 1S77- LUTHERAXRev. Christian Streit. Jonathan F. Ernst. 1780-17Rev. Carl B. Danapfel, Frederick Xeimeyer. 1790-179ARev. John Casper Dill. Frederick \V. Merttlsen. 1810- William Rath. David Kuntz,Rev. R. B. Kistler. 1870-18^Rev. William J. Andres
. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. J. Gautenbein. I). I).. [859-18 5Rev. Robert Lisberger. David B. Ernst. Jonathan E. Smith. , 1S77- LUTHERAXRev. Christian Streit. Jonathan F. Ernst. 1780-17Rev. Carl B. Danapfel, Frederick Xeimeyer. 1790-179ARev. John Casper Dill. Frederick \V. Merttlsen. 1810- William Rath. David Kuntz,Rev. R. B. Kistler. 1870-18^Rev. William J. Andres. 1877- Each of the present pastors hasserved his congregation thirty-twoyears, and both possess at the presentday as warm places in the hearts oftheir members and others, as they haveat any time during their long, popland fruitful pastorates. (Since these lines were written J. Andres has passed to hiseternal reward.—Editor.) Space will hardly allow us to referto all of the above-named, but we cnot pass by this historic shrine with-out a few words concerning the William Wan dor SI L He 1857. 1857-1869. 96 THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN. REV. J. E. SMITH, was licensed to preach the gospel in1802, and then took up his residencein Allen township, becoming pastor ofeight congregations, Salems Reformedof Moore being one of them, and ofwhich his father had been the previouspastor. He was an excellent linguist,well versed in German, French, Latin,Greek and Hebrew. He composedmany hymns and poems. On certainoccasions, when no hymn-book wasnear, he composed a suitable was gifted with a voice that couldbe heard above all others in a multi-tude, and generally was his own chor-ister in the congregations. When al-ready confined to bed during his lastsickness, the sons of Rev. WilliamHiester of Lebanon, requested him towrite some verses for their fatherstombstone, which he did. The follow-ing is the first stanza: Oft hoertest Du, geliebte Heerde. Das Wort vo
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