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Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, D. D.
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HENRY MELCHOIR MUHLENBERG. HE purpose of this sketch is not to protrude any special denominational sympathies on a public of possible contrary belief, but to give a brief account of a character who, for his excellent qualities and remarkable achievements should be of interest to any true friend of the Church, regardless of his religious persuasion, and especially to the students of Muhlenberg College, because to him she owes her name and, next to Martin Luther, her faith. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, was born September 6, 1711, at Eimbeck, a town in Hanover, Prussia. In harmony with a time-honored custom, he was baptized on the day of his birth and the registry records his name as “ Melchoir Henry, son of Nicholaus Melchoir Muhlenberg and Anna Maria (nee Klein- schmidt) his wife.” Both lines had been honored, and poured into the off-spring the blood of baronial and military distinction, the tangible fruits of which had been swept aw r ay by the devastations of war long before our subject’s birth. His father realizing the importance of educational training, sent him to the largest of two classical schools then existing at Eimbeck. In his twelfth year he was, by the rite of confirmation, received into the membership of the Lutheran Church, and we have some relics in the youth’s own hand-writing, which indicate his child-like yet sincere faith. Before he w T as thirteen years of age he lost his father in death, on which sad occasion he received, as he himself tells us, his first deep religious impressions and was most seriously affected. He was now obliged to leave school and, until his eighteenth year, was engaged in assisting one of his brothers in his trade. This was, no doubt, a wholesome school, but his natural instincts could not be thwarted. His irrepressible longing for knowledge and for a higher education received partial gratification by the employment of every leisure moment in study, and soon favorable conditions permitted him to continue his studies without very much interruption. Family tradition will have it that as a youth he made his first homiletical attempts in a barn by preaching to the bare walls. At twenty-one he was able to re-enter school and prosecute his studies in the dead languages, mathematics and music. Here his fine tenor voice served him as a revenue, as Luther’s had served its possessor long before. In 1733 we find him in an advanced school at Zellerfield, teaching and studying. March 19, 1 735 , he was matriculated as a student at the University of Gottingen which was established in that year. He was therefore one of the fir st students of that 10
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