Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-30
Rev. c. f. E. Minnigerode,
ID. d., Born in Germany,
Once Prisoner There.
FLED IN SMALL VESSEL
FROM LAND OF BIRTH
Afterward He Taught Latin
and Greek at the College of
William and Mary.
NY VERA PALMER.

hpl wen native american, DTpD-
ably no resident OF Richmond has
been held in higher esteem than tho
late Rev. Charles L. l.. Minn!corodc.
the scholarly and wcll-belovcd war
time rector % ST. Paul's Episcopal
Church--thc church where General
Lee and jefferson Davis worshipcd
In those CHASTITY days OF 1861 to. II
is there whore their memories are
preserved forever. not only in the
hearts Of the people. hut in bronze
tablets and in richly colorcd windows
beautiful in theme and in workman
ship.
But what manner Of man Was this
ronera;cd rector. who proved in
truth a shepherd To his Hook OF rich
and peer alike for. always St. Faults
has been continuation OF the ex-
tremcs of the social ana economic
scale? Was ne born and nurtured in
Il simple Christian home" Did he
attend church and Sunday school
ana thence enter the ministry TO re
ceive the rite OF ordination as the
elimination OF a peaceful and WELL
ordered up- bringing. or did this
servant OF God take holy orders after
long period OF spiritual anguish and
mental strife?
Born In Germany.
lust glimpse at the happenings
OF his early years is enough to con-
vince one OF the roughness OF the
way over which he passed before
coming 10 the comparative quiet ar
forded him in Virginia Born In
Arensburg. Wcstrhalia. August G.iSl4.
the lad was destined To grow TO man
hood in an environment from which
an under current OF revolution WAS
never absent.
True. his family moved 10 Darn
stadt when he was an infant. and
there he thrivcd rs u child OF the
city TO whom open skies, green fields
and woods We're strangers, until MS
n youth he launched out on walking
tours into the Black Forest. the
odenwald. and SO down tho Rhine TO
Cologne.
With customary Teutonic thor
oughness young Minnigcrode rccriv-
cd not only sound education In The
classics. hut his physical wcll-bciuG
was carefully considered Tor was
lie not q potential soldier OF the
Fatherland? Then, when he was
fifteen, il was thought time 10 foster
his spiritual l.fc, and after passing
an entire year In dry moral ana ra-
t!Oualistic instruction. according 10
the requirements OF the Lutheran
church nj that time. the hoy WAS
confirmed in the old Siad;- kirchc in
Darmstndt. The veteran clergyman
often referred TO that day In his
youth and traced his deeper views on
religion and Christianity to the i'm
pressions hc had gained, whrn with
200 other boys hi received Ais ilrst
communion
Wns M saint.
one is no, 10 suppos. that this va!-
liant soldier Of the church mlliiuu,
straightway became Kind of saint.
for in his studcu, days q, the Uni
Nersity OF Glesseti. 'wheyi. uc went to
study law in lt52 tte entered into the
political uaneaval Of the time. IL
was then that the fascinating writ
inSs of Heine and others were in
fiuenc.ng the youth Of the country.
when the teachings Of French rcpuhli-
cans as well az the revolut ionists 81
Poland. who were fleeing from Rus
sian despotism We're Milling the Ger
man universities. and the cry of lib
erty was IN tho air
Young M!nuiscrode of course.
Joined the EGrsnenschaft. that noble
fellowship representing the nncs, cio-
ment OF the stuIcuta WHO pledged
by healthy .tfc. high morali,x and