The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-07-19


philus StOrk WAS the youngest son o1
Rev. Charles \. 9. StOrci, AID was born
hear Salisbury, in 1885: WIS licensed III
1887, and was Immediately called to
Grace Lutheran church, Winchester,
Va. In ISL he was called To It.
Matthew'S Lutheran church, phila-
delpl;,, where he laborvd successfully
for nine vt:lrs. IN !N5> he WAS called
to the presidency Of Ncwhrrry C"llcgc.
I.c rclll:,nci here for two years, WhcH
tic returned North, just before the war.
In 1850, he was called TO the newly or
yuniZc,! church oISI. Marks, Baltimore.
IL iS'"5 he removed to Philadelphia, and
organized II. Andrews church. Ills
IMPAIRED health soon compelled h!M
TO resign. and thus ended his ministerial
luhorS of thirty->iX years, crowded with
unusual activities. He was at various
times editor Of several church Journals,
together with nnmhcr OF volumes. He
died after Il short illness IN pAli:tdcl-
phia. March -, 1874.
DR.. James Allen Brown WAS born in
! Drunlore township, Lancaster county,
! Pa, February IL, 1921. Both of his
parents were QuakerS, and lllS early
years were passed amid the duties and
tolls incident to the farmers life. Adc-
sire for 4 college education early pos
scS~cd his mind, but from this his
father sought 70 d.sSuadc him. His
education was acquired under many
disadvantages and with much imam
ciai embarrassment, and he finally
entered the senior cl;tss of Pennsylvania
College, at Gettysburg. and graouafed
| in 1872. He taught school for, several
wears after graduating, i'll the mean
time studied theology, and Was licensed
by the Maryland Synod at 4 conven-
ton held in the city Of Washington III
October 1915. His first charges were
in Baltimore, York, and Reading, Pa,
remaining at the latter place nearly
ten years. In February, 1859, he left
! Reading to become Professor Of
Theology and Ancient G.anguaages i'll
Newberrv College, and in 1850 lie was
elected president of the college, i'll place
of Dr. Slork, WHO had resigned. Upon
the breaking out of the civil wal, the
stron. Union sentiments entertained
bv DR.. Brown, were known to those
who favored secession, and 4 body OF
"Minutc Men, as they were called,
was organized, who were to call and
interview the Doctor, and if
he should declare himself unfavor-
able to secession, they We're to
expel him from the State. Being
apprised by personal friend OF
the danger which threatened him, at
five O'Clock of the same day, when all
the professors and students had assem-
bled in the college chapel for the GUS
tomary evening prayers, DR.. Brown,
very pale, but with a look of firm deter
mination, arose and told the audience
of the notice he had received, and said
that he then and there would anticl-
pate an interview on the part of COM
mittee. He then said he was born in
the Union, reared in the Union, and
hoped to die in the Union; that his
sympathies were unequivocally with
the Federal government, and that he
proposed to resign rs president OF the
college, return to his native State, and,
if necessary, Join the ranks in defense
of the Union. This soon spread
through the town and the effect on the
people was electric. Mr.. Johnstone,
chancellor of the State of South Caro-
lima, and a firm friend of DR.. Brown,
offered to take him quietly to a small
station nine miles from Newberry, and
to send his family by the next train.
DR.. Brown declined. lie said that he
had come to South Carolina openly and
without fear, and he proposed to leave
in the same manner. Fortunately he
was able to do this, with the assistance
of several personal friends, who accom-
panied him to the depot, as a sort of
Dody-guard, among whom, l believe,
our beloved DR.. O. 3. Mayer, Sr., was
one. 1t should be said, however, that
DR.. Brown, while firm and fearless in
his political views, was not bitterin his
assertion Of them. lam told that when
summoned to assist II guarding the town
at night against an unprecedented insur-
rection Of the negroes, he always served,
but when he and DIR. Brantly, pastor
of the Baptist church here then, hap
pened to lie Oh duty together, they
would spend the night in discussing
theology and literature.
After some years OF service as chap
lain in the Northern army, DR.. Brown
was elected to the chair of Didactic
Theology, and chairman Of the faculty
in the theological seminary Of the Cen
eral Synod at Gettysburg. He arose to
great distinction, and became not only
the most prominent mcElher OF the
General Synod North, but occupied q
position in the highest ranks OF Luth-
eran theologians in the United States
On the night Of December 9, 1879, he
was suddenly stricken with paralysis,
which deprived him Of the power OF
speech and the use of his right arm. |
was then a student in the college at
Gettysburg, and will remember how
the sad Intelligence of the stroke spread
through the town. He never fully
recovered, and died OH June 18th, 1882,
at Lancaster, Pa.
While DIS. Stork and Brown were
pastors Of this church, Dr. Stork always
preached in the morning, and DR..
Brown ut night. DR.. Stork was an
eloquent, pathetic, popular preacher,
and his congregations were always
crowded. DR.. Brown was more pro-
found, logical, and no less forcible
preacher, but was not so popular with
the masses. Both were great men, and
though their ministry here was brief,
their presence, work, and influence ac-
compIished not little in making the
church of Luther Chapel what it is.
And now, the time allotted to his ad-
dress admoniShes me to be brief. The
sketches which follow, though interest
ing they might me, must be limited. ,
Drs. Brown and Stork were succeeded
as pastors by Rev. j. p. SmeltZer, ID. d..
He was born september 10, 1919, in
Carroll county, Md. Graduated at
Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg in
1913, he was pastor first at Harper's
Ferry, and then at Salem, Va. He
became president of Newberry College
in 1861, which position he occupied
until 1877, when he became president
of Walhalla Female Seminary. The
degree Of d. D. was conferred upon
him by ErsEline College i'll 1873. The
last few years Of his life were passed as
pastor of several churches in LcNing-
ton county, in connection with the
Tennessee Synod. He died Of heart
disease in Charleston, $. G., in October,
1887.