1937 - Moravian Archives

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Pennsylvania city. The people of Cen- Bishop de Schweinitz remarked that
tral Church were most cordial, and I in looking up the records he discovered
enjoyed the experience of preaching that the last time Dr. Mott spoke in
to them. The pastor, Dr. Meilicke, that church was in January of 1915.
graciously took me home to lunch, and It came to me with -a sort of shock
Mrs. Meilicke just as graciously, see- that I was there. I was then just a
ing I was pressed for time, allowed freshman in college, and it was the
me to leave shortly 'thereafter so I first time I had the privilege of hearcould
pay a brief call on Dr. E. J. ing this great world leader whom I
Heath at our Woman'8 College. He was to listen to on several other ocand
I then attended the S. P. G. An- casious. The church was beautifully
niversary Lovefeast in the Central decorated for this celebration, with
Church, at which Bishop de Schweinitz palms on one side to represent the
gave a truly excellent address. I sat tropics, and pines on the other the
just in front of Bro. Roy Grams and arctics-Alaska and Nicaragua.
Mrs. Grams (daughter of Bishop and . I got back to the college in time to
Mrs. Pfohl, for those who might not attend one more session of the nightly
know) who just that week arrived to prayer meetings held by the theologues.
take over the South Bethlehem Church. At the close I was rendered speechless
With the .first of the year Bro. Grams for a momnt. The leader of the group,
is to be the new editor of The Mora- president of the "Seminary Senate, "
vian, our northern contemporary. It James Weingarth, whose father was
was good to see them both again, and in college with my father, presented
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enjoyed very much, I went to the
Lititz Moravian Church aud listened
to a splendia missionary sermon by
Bro. Kenneth Hamilton. Which reminds
me that he and Mrs. Hamilton
invited me to lunch on the Friday I
was in Bethlehem, which was trie only
opportunity we got to say more than
a word or two to each other.
A speaker at a missionary festival
at Lititz has his hands full. Bro. Hamilton
spoke to two different groups in
the Sunday School, preached the morning
sermon, made the lovefeast address
in the afternoon, and preached
again at night. But he was abundantly
equal to it, and so, apparently, was
the congregation. A late supper at
Linden Hall and then Dr. Stengel, his
son, Bro. Horne and I went into execu­
tive session.
On Monday moming two Moravian
Illymen paired off in that same queer
the next day I managed to make them me a copy of Stanley Jones' "Vic- _____________ _
a brief call at their new home. torious Living." That it would come _____________ _
That night, at 6:30 instead of at from them all, it was passed from hand
4 in the afternoon as previously sug- to hand Until it reached me. On the
gested, we had the vesper in the col- fly-leaf every seminary student had
lege chapel, with Dr. Moses, Dean of written his name. I had been feeling
the Seminary, presiding. This was 1l. all along during that memorable week
new venture. Quite a number of the that I was getting a lot more than I
students, several of the faculty mem- was giving, and now I was sure of it.
bers with their wives and families, and And then, in true Moravian fashion,
some people from the community were I a£te1' this spiritual feast we had one
present. It was a very fine service of a delicious temporal nature, imwhich
I greatly enjoyed. At about 8 :30 promptu to be sure, but aU the more
Prof. Hassler came to take me to his enjoyable.
home for a couple hours of delightful The college students conduct and
fellowship. arrange for special speakers at Tues-
By Monday morning I began to feel day morning chapel, and had asked me
that my week's work was about com- to speak. Fortunately, my train left at
pleted. I had scarcely been off the 10 :35, and chapel began at 9 :50. So I
campus. It had been 1 a. m. or later had everything in readiness to leave,
almost every night before I had got- and after my address, and good-byes
ten to bed, and I was up for breakfast were said, John Fulton and Jack
every moming. I felt free, therefore, Barnes escorted me to the station.
to accept an invitation from Bro. F. The next days were spent visiting
P. Stocker, a former college mate and relatives in Elizabeth, and West
now a member of the Northero P. E. Orange, N. J. I intended leaving for
C., to go with Bro. Yaeck, the pastor of home on Sunday night, but here came
College Hill Church, and William Mil- a letter from James F. Stengel, assisler,
the new Provincial treasurer who tant to his father, Dr. F. W. Stengel,
succeeded Bishop de Schweinitz, out principal of Linden Hall, our excelto
a bit of well-kept country side, and lent boarding school and junior colwith
some queer-looking clubs attempt lege for gh-Is at Lititz, Pa., asking me
to coax a little ball to drop into a hole to speak at their chapel service on Sunwhere
it most certainly did not wish to day night. The Rev. Byron K. Horne,
go. However, by sheer good luck my the pastor at Lititz, had seen me at
ball proved less unwilling than the Bethlehem and extended an urgent inothers,
and I was thereby able to up- vitation to visit Lititz before I returnhold
the honor of the South. That ed home. I promised to think about it,
night I renewed acquaintances with so when Jimmy Stengel's letter came,
Bro. Nonnemaker, once pastor of our I decided to go. Incidentally, Mrs.
Clemmons Church and now principal James Stengel is the former Louise
of the Moravian Preparatory School, Jenkins of Winston-Salem, and until
and his family. After supper we at- he took his present position, Jimmy
tended the great 150th anniversary ser- taught mathematics at Georgia Tech.
vice of the' S. P. G., held in Central My train got to Lancaster at 5 :30,
Church, and at which the addre!!S was and by 6 0 'clock, I was eight miles
clelivered by Dr. John R. Mott. It is away at Lititz, in a clean shirt and in
this occasion which Dr. Edmund the pulpit of the Linden Hall chapel,
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At the end of the first half of it the
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