The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-07

and you shall not cease until the Splre polntS ngn
Into the heavens as On earnest that all your hopes
and aspirations are centred there, and that there
you will meet the Master anu your wages: I'VE ell
done ye good and faithful servants One num-
GEed and sixteen years rst ouse OF worshIS
was situated In Archdale street, IN the centre oil
the lot on which now stands the English Luthe-
ran Church. !t was Il small framed building, with
q steeple and q belfry, and In many OF the older
families of Charleston that Claim their descent
from the fatherland, copied drawings are sacred:
ly preserved to this day. That was the small seed
from which the mighty tree m'ls spluug' mhose s,s
mountains oil over our State, IN every direction.
That one little church has grown 10 forty nine;
and the one that we a:e no" raising TO the Iurth-
er honor and praise OF our Lore, VII! make the
half hundred OF LIuthcran churches in South Caro-
lima God bless the noble German heart that laid
the first cornerstone. Yes, God grant him sweet
repose, and cause the most fragrant spring
flowers to hurst forth the first every returning
NAV 10 mark the sacred spot where the ashes
repose of him and his brethren that had heart
for '.guten GOtt" of their fathers, ana hand Tor
the veal OF their German fell0W-cltlZens.
The great wa.s OF Napoleon and his procama-
ton OF non-intercourse with england, caused
German Immigration to cease, ana tnus was ioss
the German tongue in Claries.on, until, IN lS4V s.
church erected. That modest house was all that
the might of the Germans Of that day could nc,
comnsh, for we were then Few and OF limited
means You have e Sm ad 'Es fsw ~ 1renda
because we were not known. NOW you nave null
titudes that will assist yon with pleasure because
you have been faithful in the days OF their trouble
and distress. God grant tnas you nkewlse nave
Increased in religious earnestness, and In true
German love OF all that Is no0le, gracious and
good This grand structure snail oe your dome,
your minister your catheara ~ san DC nep'
tlon after generation, so long as me German
tongue shall proclaim the name OF the Lord Je.
hovah, and the hymn OF Luther snail resound
Tn
to His everlasting gory ~ ,s hIuse nars
nrmctl, here they shall be married. here your
bier shall stand, and from here you snail travel
to your last, long home at Betnanla. les mere
you shall come with your Joys anu ySI o b
ID sage OF Israel, "that the eyes OF ihe LORD, our
God I've open upon this house day ana nleht. Hear
ken from Thy dwelling place, even from heaven,
and when Thou nearest, forgive. whatsoever
sore or whatsoever sickness there be, then what
PRAYER or what supplicatlon soeVer snall De MADE
OF any man, when every one snaH KNOW MS own
sore and his own grief and shall spread iortn MS
hand in this house. then hear Thou from heaven,
thy dwelling place and forgive, and render unto
every man according to his ways, whose heart
Germans OF Charleston, you have time and
Kindly responded to my calls In many q noble OBJ
iect, Will YOU hearken once more! call unto
you now. You have begun TINS gIeas WORK IL II
full II difficulties; but 1t can sna nusa oe glSal r
must be abandoned. Let those who commenced
the mighty task continue with redouoled energy:
Their manhood requires them to persevere. Let
those that have doubted the hnal success doubt
longer but come forward with Tng heart
ants oT the German come forward and prove by
their aid that they honor the name m ans religion OF
nrove of hs professions by an effective co-epera-
tion. Let the German Catholic, even, and the
German Jew, and the German Gentle, Join the
German Lutheran In this German object; and the
day shall assuredly come when you will oil, with
pride and pleasure. hail this beautiful temple as
q sacred symbol of the possibility OF religious li6e-
ralIty, and OF German unity for grand anu noole
purpose. ,.,.,,
guests partook OF collation., during which MT.
Kalb, the chairman OF the Building Committee,
paid high compliment to the zeal and efficiency
OF the architect, Mr.. Devereux.
The interest of the exercises was heightened BY
the sweet music from the post band, which was
present through the courtesy Of Colonel Edie.