. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. im Herzen, den Gedanken an ist Jahrzehnte lang ein Gedanke des Grauens ge-wesen; seit ich dort war aber der Inhalt meinerSehnsucht. . Seit ich hier Kirchenrat bin, weissich erst wie gut es ein amerikanischer Pastor Justus Ruperti. From the Erinnerungen eines Philadelphia Pastors(Kirchenbote, 1906 - 1908) we take most of the follow-ing details. For a time Dr. Spaeth thought of collectingthese articles in book form, and had made many correc-tions
. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. im Herzen, den Gedanken an ist Jahrzehnte lang ein Gedanke des Grauens ge-wesen; seit ich dort war aber der Inhalt meinerSehnsucht. . Seit ich hier Kirchenrat bin, weissich erst wie gut es ein amerikanischer Pastor Justus Ruperti. From the Erinnerungen eines Philadelphia Pastors(Kirchenbote, 1906 - 1908) we take most of the follow-ing details. For a time Dr. Spaeth thought of collectingthese articles in book form, and had made many correc-tions and additions with this end in view. Later theidea was given up, but to his biographer they are atreasury of information at first hand, given with allthe genial simplicity and humor of the straightforwardSwabian. These reminiscences naturally begin by telling howit happened that I came to Philadelphia. For, to bequite open, this will always be, in my eyes, the mostremarkable event of my life. If there were ever aCandidate of theology in Germany, who did not thinkof such a thing, and had not the slightest desire to seek72. THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 73 his field of labor in America, it was the writer of theselines. Indeed he may candidly say, that in his youthhe was as un-American, even anti-American as a youngGerman could be, who felt that every fibre of his heartwas rooted in his German Fatherland and home. Butin the providence of God, without the slightest idea onmy part, I had been sent to a fine preparatory schoolfor American church-life, to Scotland, where for nearlya year I taught in one of the best families of the oldnobility. There I had not only opportunity to becomefamiliar with the English language and literature, butalso learned to know and prize the loveliest side ofEnglish life, in the fixed customs of a truly patriarchalhome. And moreover, through my venerable friend I came in contact with the mighty pulse ofreligious life in the Free Church of Scotla
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