The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1857-12-03
Religious Intelligence.

The following IL an outline OF q sermon
preached by the Rev. Dr. VAS IsoEs, 10
Christ Church, st. Paul, NJ r.. on Sun
day morning, November 18th. 1857; being
the first Sunday after the burial Of Mr..
SIMON kERs;
Mr.. Kern wa. q native oi Prussia, and emf
grated ia hi twelfth year with his parents
TO America The family settled in Wiscon.
sin, and be- was placed ~ clerk in store
10 Milwaukee. In this employment he was
associated with young man from Canada
Of kindred tastes and principles, Who was
Afterwards his fellow clerk in st. Paul 10
which place Mr.. Kern emigrsted In 1881.
The young friend just alluded 20 joined with
Mr.. Kern in buying out the stock Of goods
Of their employer and setting up on their
own account. in dry goods busibets, Gath
carts 4 Kern Though he w4s led to cm-
bark 10 the hardware business, and to sell out
his interest to the Catbcsrts, their confdiug
aud mutual friendship continued 10 his
dying hour, aud none were more ready or
more welcome than they in ministries ut bis
sick bed and in biz las, hour.
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the first honest employment which offered
itself, working, ! believe, for his board, and
he WAS thus enabled 10 eat bis own bread
and by Gods blessing 10 70 on until he nc
laircl b. present honorable competence
Ia five years OF modest asiduity hc placed
himself in the rank Of our most respectable.
ccmpctent and successful merchants.
Mr.. kerns religious character was main.
tanel from childhood with less interruption
than ia usually observed in young men. Ills
family we're Protestants, attached TO the
Lutheran Communion In that communion
he was baptisod in infancy. Martin Luther,
in organizing the Protestant bodies who
followed him ut the Reformation, re
tained the Pte Of Confirmation even where
he deemed himself Obliged 10 dispense with
the Office OF Bishop Mr.. Kern was con
firmed accordingly by an Evangelical luih-
eran pastor, renewing for himsell the vows
which had been made for him IN h- infancy
in that holy sacrament which W. just assist
ell in celebrating.
At st. Paul he found the parish in which
I've has lived and died, and among its priyi
leges. the stated ministrations Of d Bishop.
Upon due examination and lull conviction,
he gave honor to the Bishops Office, as an
Office which God has appointed In his church.
nhd way confirmed IN this parish under my
ministry. 10y bishop kempcr. lie rem'fn-
bcred thankfully the blessing OF his baptism
anJ the religious instruction and the prayers
Of the pastors who guided hi childhood, bu,
adopted tho Protestant Episcopal Church
IN the United States IA his religious home,
with full and determined conviction. The
hope Of bringing other Intherans 10 settle
themselves ~ christians in the sams church
was cherished aud often expressed by him.
lie dcplored their neglect Of church duties,
and the divisions which he saw among them,
leading to tho great aud manifest decay OF
piety and morals. As evidence Of an inter.
est IN bis countrymen aud fellow I.utherans,
will state. that being frequently called
upon 10y them for pastoral erviccs. 10 bap-
tism and burials always found him rady
to assist me In reading the proper services
tor those occasions, from our German Pray
er Book, and he took great pains in order 10
instruct me In their use. Ia word, he be-
came faithful COMMUNICATE. and 40 con.
iinced I'LL his death. Asa layman. ever
ready to work for the church, Sunday
School teacher, aud a Vcstryman. q gcner.
ous and reliable friend. and counsellor to
his pastor, he was all that could ask
have spoken OF him ~ an example Of
q young man sitting out to get his own liv
Ing. Cnder this head have only to en-
force upon you oil the lesson which his ex.
ample teaches, on one important point. --
Remember thu, he did not wait IN idleness
and dependence, TO find work that suited his
capricCs and his tastes. but took the frs,
that came. what his hand found TO do--at
the wages that we're offered, Il believe SIM
ply his board and did Il with kis might.
aud was blcsed in thus keeping Gods com.
mandment.
am to speak Of him now IA. friend and
associate. mas, ccnioa. mysel! with me.e
glance at his qualities ~ friend. He wis
constant in his friendships, for they were
few, and not formed hastily, II they
were sometimes interrupted by the d,sgas,s
which 80 easily sway in days Of prosperity,
they were always renewed in the hour Of y
friends adversely AMI trial. MIR. Kern was
in the habit oi thinking for himself aud
sought to cultivate aud improve his own
power of Judging. His maNims of moral
conduct were fixed, and came from his reli-
gion. lie was jealous Of undue niIuence
from any quarter, and especially OF evil in.
ilu.ncc over his moral habits, and where
such undue influence was apprchend,d or
experienced from an intimacy. that in,ima-
cy was u, once and karlessly rcpouuccd and
in the telling phrase familiarity belonging to
this subject, the associate. whoever be- might
be. was "cui,'
am To speak of other moral traits;
lst. or his tlial pie,y and love Of kin
drcd. lie loved his father ami his mother,
and hi home. lie had loved them a. hoy.
and his boys heart grew bigger in the man
and was boys heart till the last How II
ycsrned, during his sickness, at the mention
OF his ycnera,cd ia,her. ! can w,N>~ and
with what tenderness il lcw TO embrace the
sister, far away in his native land. His last