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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV CALL TO AMERICA 1842-1844 Privat-Docent in Berlin--Professor Park--Monod and Godet--"The Sin against the Holy Ghost "--Private Thoughts--Delegation from the United States--Call to Mercersburg--Marheineke--Ordination--Krummacher--England--Oxford--Dr. Pusey--Arrival in America It was in the fall of 1842 that Dr. Schaff began to lecture as privat-docent. The following is his own account of his decision to pursue the study of theology: --"Many men seem never to find out their true vocation in this world. Others start with a clear and definite aim and pursue it with unfaltering perseverance. Nevertheless Providence shapes our calling, assigns us our sphere of labor and gives us the necessary equipment, sometimes in harmony with our wishes, sometimes in direct opposition to flesh and blood. Our bitterest disappointments may be made our best opportunities. I am sure I am called to be a teacher of theology. I would not exchange my calling, if I could, no not even for a crown. Little as I have accomplished, that is nevertheless the best I could have done. "My first childish ambition was to be a soldier. My next and stronger passion was to be a poet. I filled my memory early with the lyrics of Salis, my countryman whose venerable form and whose funeral in 1834 I well remember, and Schiller, Goethe, Uhland, Ruckert, Knapp, as also with selections from the ancient and other modern classics. I wrote many verses, German and Latin, in all sorts of metres, ancient and modern, and sometimes I imagined myself to be a poet. But the wish was father to the thought. No effort can supply the defect of nature. I now look upon my juvenile verses as attempts to fly without wings. Nevertheless poetry has ever been to me, next to religion, my richest source of spiritual en...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150498596
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150498595
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 308 gr


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