Samuel Bacon Barnitz, missionary and western secretary : an appreciation

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SAMUEr^ BACON BARNITZ.

Foreword

In our day there is a cry made for the simple Hfe. There are others who show us the strenuous hfe. It is possible for the two types to be blended in the same personality. The subject of this sketch lived a strenuous life, yet so little occupied with thoughts of public recognition that it has been difficult to find the m.aterials for a connected biographical story. Dr. Barnitz has shown the church an example of simple faith combined with a remarkable activity. The account herewith submitted is partial, but it will serve to hint the devotion and rich labors of one who ''being dead yet speaketh."

The author of the Simple Life has said : ''If a man, in his humble sphere, in the midst of the ignorance and faults that are his inevitably, consecrates himself sincerely to his task, it is because he is in contact with the eternal source of goodness."

By that token we have in the life of Doctor Samuel B. Barnitz an illustration of contact with God conspicuous and singular.

It was deemed best to allow Dr. Barnitz to tell a good deal of the story in his own graphic way. Hence the very free quotations from letters, journals, and reports. It would have been interesting to have o j^'ore:word.

come upon the address which he frequently dehvered, "Twenty Years in a City Mission", but there was no memorandum of it remaining. Many who had heard the lecture, moved by the alternating pathos and humor of it, would have been glad to see it set out in type.

Believing that there is an incentive value for others in all consecrated work, this brief sketch of one of God's devoted servants is given to his friends and to the Church.

Chapter I. Birth And Early Ye^ars 17

His parents — Boyhood struggles — At the public school — Acts as porter — Clerk in store — Con- Urmation — First drawings to the Ministry — First public prayer.

CHAPTER n.

STARTING FOR COIvIvKGE) 27,

Call to the Ministry — More trials — Prayer answered — Enters college — Active in Christian Work — Health breaks — Enters Theological Seminary — Walks to Niagara.

CHAPTER HI.

AS HIS FRIENDS SAW HIM AT COIvLEGE 29

Dr. Groh's Letter — Dr. Baugher, the elder — Fears for his oivn ability — Reassured — Dr. Lilly's testimony — Popularity among the students — Sanctified humor.

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CHAPTER IV.

LEAVING GETTYSBURG 33

Revival Work — Visits Philadelphia — Meets Geo, H. Stuart — Chaplain at Lutherville — Anxiety — about settlement — Dark days — Trial sermons — Dr. Stork's call — Dr. Butler's Assistant — Returns to York.

CHAPTER V.

CALL TO WHEELING 38

Three Life Periods — Dr. Baum suggests Wheeling — Dr. Passavant — Accepts Call — Barly Days at Wheeling — The Civil War — First Sunday — • friends — Dr. Bang her, Jr., his Assistant — Sunday School Work — Mission conditions.

CHAPTER VI.

METHODS AT WHEELING 45

First Orphan Work — No Barly Records — First converts — Reviezv of Four Years — Summing up Results — Buys Lot — Lays corner-stone — Dr. F. W. Conrad — Eighteen Years Toil — A Second Mission.

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CHAPTER VII.

AN OLD-FASHIONKD DIARY 53

Laments unworthiness — Division of General Synod — Prays for the young men — Visits Jail — Sermon Writing — Despondent — School Grows — Declines society — Visits Nezu York — Longs for a Church — Twenty-nine — Sent to Montreal — At York and Gettysburg.

CHAPTER Vni.

AN IMPARTIAL, ESTIMATE) 65

N earing the End at Wheeling — Relation to the Railways — Elements of Success — Permanence — Timely Help — Benevolence — Collections — Special Contributions — Churchliness — Loyalty — Catholicity — Philanthropy — Enterprise.

CHAPTER IX.

TRACT NO. 217 71

Pen Picture — Mrs. Dr. Heilman — Greatest Sunday School — Sunday ministrations — Praying for bricks — Stays panic — Secret of his success.

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CHAPTER X.

Wider Field — Farewell to Wheeling — Disclaims merit — Ministerial Sons — First Report to Board — Des Moines — Eleven times elected — Twenty Years in Held.

CHAPTER XL

A MODEly SE;CRE:TARY 8o

A Mission Napoleon — Railway Methods — His Reports — Day of Small Things — Used the Newspaper — Plans for a Mission Journey — Relations to General Council — Advocates College and Seminary on His Field — Dr. Clutz's Testimony — Board of Education — In Washington — Other Services — Declines other calls.

CHAPTER Xn.

A mode:iv se:cre:tary's re:port 87

Monthly Reports — Material for Historical Society — One at Random — Kansas — Missouri — Rocky Mountain Synod — Scandinavian Items — Colorado Springs — Pueblo — Nebraska — Illinois — Indiana — lozva — Miscellaneous.

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CHAPTER XIII.

IN WEARINESS AND PAIN^ULNESS IO4

Overwork — Longs for Rest — Travels to Minnesota to answer a letter — Rich Return — A Blessed Trio — Apostolic Labors — Zions-Bote Notice — Posthumous Notes — Last Communion.

CHAPTER XIV.

HIS WORK IN CALII^ORNIA Ill

Beginnings — Sacramento — Dr. Burnett's Testimony — Women's Societies — San Francisco — Los Angeles — Other Missions — Analysis of Dr. Barnitz's Character — The Bnd.

CHAPTER XV.

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY II7

General Synod at Des Moines — Committees — Receptions — Services in St. John's — Dr. Nelander — Other Addresses — Crowning Day — Barnits Day.

CHAPTER XVI.

HIS LAST SERMON 122

Whitsunday in Boulder — Facing Home — The Precious Name — The Victor's Crown — Going

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Home — Denver Memorial — A Great Gap — Two Secretaries take His Field.

CHAPTER XVIL

DR. BARNITZ IN THE PE^W I26

Dr. Wirfs Tribute — Pastor and Parishioner — Punctual in attendance — Liberal Contributor — Example to all — His Prayers — Addresses to the Sunday School — Funeral Sermon.

CHAPTER XVHL

A NOTABI.E: CORRESPONDENCE I34

AFaithful Correspondent — Mrs. Bmma B. Stork — Dead yet Speaketh — Thanksgiving — Mercies Recalled — Wheeling revived — California — Faster — In an Adobe House — Labors Abundant — Moody recalled — Charles Stork.

CHAPTER XIX.

GREAT DAYS IN CHICAGO, WHEEUNG, ETC I42

A Platform Orator — Conventions — Montreal — Washington — Chicago — Columbus — Wheeling — Nezv York — Dr. Schmucker's Appeal — Liberality.

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CHAPTER XX.

SNAP SHOTS FROM THE FIELD 147

Winter and Famine — Requisites in a Missionary — Expense Account — Des Moines — Portland — Sacramento — Chicago — Hamma Hall — Varied Extracts from Reports — Conclusion.

CHAPTER XXL

DR. BARNITZ AND THE GERMANS I70

Dr. Barnitz of German stock — His interest in German Synods — Dr. RosenstengeVs Editorial notice — Mr. StifeVs voluntary tribute.

CHAPTER XXn.

TRIBUTES OF ESTEEM 180

Memorials — Dr. Rhodes — Dr. Troxell — Dr. Hamma — A. P. Pox — Dr. Hartman — Judge Grosscup — Dr. Heckert — Lutheran World — Observer — Evangelist — Dr. Heisler — Dr. Kelly — Dr. C. S. Albert — Dr. Schnur — Dr. Clutz — Mrs. Hamma — Mrs. Breckenridge — Dr. Wirt — Dr. Peschau — W. L. Seabrook — Hon. Thos. Dewey — Dr. Waltz — Dr. Dunbar — Dr. Wolf — Mr, Eckhardt— Memorial Services,

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CHAPTER XXIII.

A woman's tribute i88

Always promoting Women's Work — Death announced — Memorial Services in Women's Convention — Bxeciitive Committee — Mrs. Maggart's Address — Estimate of Character — Incidents — A Hero — Dr. Otfs tribute.

CHAPTER XXIV.

Finale 198

Family History — Loyalty — Death and Burial — Memorial Tablet in St. John's — His Life Text.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Samuel Bacon Barnitz Frontispiece

Dr. Barnitz in robe, 1861 35 ^

The Old Church at Wheeling 48^

Dr. Barnitz in 1867 62 ^

The Trio, Barnitz, Baugher, Goettman 72

The Trio, after twenty-five years 82 ^

Headquarters in Des Moines g^y'

St. John's Church, Des Moines 109

The California Synod 115

Dr. Barnitz in 1897 130

Last Picture, taken by Pastor Oehler 165

CHAPTER I.

BIRTH AND ^ARI.Y YEJARS.

Samuel Bacon Barnitz was born in York, PennsyU vania, May 12th, 1838. His father was Samuel M. Barnitz, a son of "General Jacob Barnitz, an officer of the Revolutionary War, who carried in his body an enemy's ball thirty-two years". So the monument in the old Lutheran church-yard at York records it. The mother of Samuel Barnitz was Sarah Demuth, daughter of John Demuth, one of the earliest German settlers of Pennsylvania. This godly mother consecrated her son from earliest childhood to the service of the Master and the Church. The father was immersed in business, having a large legal practice in the courts of York, Lancaster, and Dauphin Counties. It was the mother's influence which determined the life and calling of the son. The family was early broken and scattered. First came the death of one brother, who was preparing to enter the ministry ; later a brother and sister were buried in one grave ; still later the father, after a lingering illness, died when the boy Samuel was but nine years of age. Then came the pinch of poverty, the reduced home, the small economies which left their impress upon the boy's whole after life.

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Those who knew Dr. Barnitz in his later years will understand the complete democracy of spirit which always moved him. He lived the simple life. He was born in a simple community, and the deprivations of his early life were part of the education which fitted him the better to do the work to which he was called of God. Often in the midst of his soul-moving addresses he would exclaim, ''Thank God, I had a good mother!" She saw the coming poverty and prepared for it. She held the children together, moved into a smaller house, used her own patrimony in support of the little ones of the family, helping to meet later expenses in college and seminary. It is a story of parental sacrifice that has been often repeated in the families of preacher and missionary.

The changes in family condition interrupted the boy Samuel's early education. Even the public school was too expensive a luxury. The modern custom of supplying the pupils with free books had not then been introduced. For lack of the required books, being unable to buy them, the boy was compelled to lose promotion. Yet he was made of the stuff that does not surrender to small difficulties, nor to great ones. He gathered bones on the public streets and alleys of York that he might buy the books for use in the public schools. Incredible as this may seem, it is a fact, the record of which remains in the hand-

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writing of Doctor Barnitz himself. What a commentary on the changes of fifty years ! An ambitious, self-reHant boy wilHng to do any honorable or honest work that he might get an education. Fortunately for him the city's sanitary regulations were not then inaugurated. He would buy few books with the bones he could now gather in the streets of York. Young Barnitz also acted as baggage porter that he might gather up a few dimes between school hours, and so be able to buy the books for the next term. This willingness to fetch and carry never forsook him through all his later life. He was always doing errands of good for others, carrying his own heavy valises often to save the church's money, counting no service too menial if he might thereby serve Christ.

In the year 1853 when only fifteen years old, the boy Samuel left the public school to enter the dry goods store of his uncle, Alexander Demuth. This place as clerk in a country store was also part of the boy's education. Many a young man has graduated from the counter to become manager, owner, legislator, preacher. In his place as clerk, Samuel Barnitz was a positive Christian influence to all about him. He was of such a trustworthy character that he was enabled to do his full duty to his employer and to those who were older, and thereby rapidly gained promotion. One-third of his salary was annually left in the hands of his uncle, to be saved for the proverbial rainy day, so that in case of sickness or accident his mother might have something to depend upon.

During all these years the religious education of the boy was not being neglected. He was a child of God from birth, like Timothy, knowing the Scriptures from his youth. He never knew the date of his earliest religious impressions. He often said that he did not know or remember a time when he did not feel a desire to love and serve the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Spring of 1856, when eighteen years old, Samuel Barnitz made a public profession of Christ's name through the ancient and honored Lutheran custom of confirmation. Though a child of God from birth and by baptism, not remembering a day when he was not consciously in accord with the gracious drawing of God's spirit, still he gathered new impulse of good from an open and avowed declaration of his purpose to live for the glory of God and the good of his fellow men. From that day all things undertaken in God's name were always looked on by him as a triumphant success, even when they seemed to fail. Such is the contradiction of faith.

This public confession of Christ occurred during the four years of service in the store of his uncle. It was then that he became deeply interested in the Bible and Sunday School cause. Then also came the first drawing towards the Christian ministry. He was a faithful clerk, but he was not satisfied as a clerk, feel-

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ing a desire for some sphere of usefulness that was not then disclosed to him.

An enthusiastic young man of eighteen, he entered with all his soul into the then comparatively new form of Christian work known as the Young Men's Christian Association. A daily prayer meeting was conducted, the leader of which was in his turn Samuel Barnitz. His efforts for the spiritual welfare of those around him were very greatly successful. In the religious revival which swept over the country in the year 1857 Samuel Barnitz took a deep interest. He dated his call to the ministry from that time. From the record which he made in after years this extract is of deep significance :

"I love to recall the revival season of 1857, as in it God gave me unmistakable evidence of a call to give myself to His service in the ministry. Even then He permitted me to lead souls to the cross. Oh, distinguished honor for one so unworthy ! Lord Jesus, keep me faithful !"

The first prayer the lad Samuel ever made in public was long remembered in York. It moved the congregation to tears. The older members of the church knew the misfortune through which the family of the boy had passed, the death of the father, the struggles of the mother, and their sympathies were aroused even to the melting of strong hearts. Many of the young companions of Barnitz in store, school, and church were at that time led to confess Christ before men. Thus early God gave His blessing to faithful testimony.

CHAPTER 11.

STARTING FOR COLLEGE:.

The call to the ministry that came to Samuel Barnitz was of the old-fashioned kind. He was not in any doubt about it. The Lord had truly called, as He called the other Samuel in the ancient days. The call came not with audible voice out of the sky, nor in supernatural fashion in the night, but none the less was it deemed a call of God direct, unmistakable, that dare not be resisted. He had neither rest nor peace until he fully yielded and said — ''Here, Lord, take me, and send me, and use me for Thine own glory, and the good of my fellow creatures." Immediately, in consequence of this deep conviction, he left the store of his uncle to enter upon a course of preparatory study at the York County Academy, looking to a full course at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa. During the time of study at this Academy the embryo preacher began to preach and conduct meetings in the waste places, visiting the alms house, and helping as God opened the way in every kind of Christian work. There were dark hours just a little in advance, but the boy was unaware, and went forward courageously.

In the Spring of 1858, the arrangements were all

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completed for entering the College at Gettysburg. His delicate mother had prepared with her own feeble hands the clothing outfit such as the boy required during the college term. Then was the heart of the youthful candidate cast down by the clouds of thick darkness which fell in one night. His entire wardrobe was stolen and was never recovered. Must the young man go back to the store, or even carry baggage again ? We can assume that the diligence that characterized the man was then active in the boy, and there were likely no bones left in the streets of York to be collected.

The money loss of the clothing was very considerable. Yet it was but the beginning of troubles, a kind of preparation for something more severe. The uncle, Alexander Demuth, was unfortunate in business, and in February, 1858, Samuel Barnitz and his mother were left without a dollar. All that had been so carefully reserved during the four years in the store, intended now for his education, all that his mother had received from her father's estate, was swept away from them in the moment they seemed most to need it. The perplexity and darkness of that hour for loving mother and devoted son, only those two disappointed hearts could ever know. They called on God in prayer, asking for light in their darkness.

Nothing of cant or fanaticism ever entered into

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the religious experience of Samuel Barnitz. He was thoroughly practical in his ideas of prayer as in all other forms of faith's exercise. Consequently he was not surprised to find that his prayer was answered. His pastor, who knew of his plans for entering the ministry, when he learned of the financial loss that had overtaken the family, called to say that friends were ready to help. The means were soon provided by the congregation and others in York, so that there was no interruption to the plans for going away to college. In 1858, Samuel Barnitz entered Pennsylvania College, at the Spring term, and for a time was successful in pursuing his studies along with his class. The failure of the uncle, with the attendant perplexities and lawsuits, preyed upon the mind of the student, so that at the end of the Summer term he returned home considerably broken in health. During this half year at college Mr. Barnitz impressed himself upon his fellow students by reason of his deep religious zeal. He found much to occupy his attention in the isolation of a country village. His room-mate fell under the favorable influence of his consecrated and earnest spirit. The unconverted students in the various college classes were drawn to the subject of personal religion through the devotion of this fledgling from York.

By the consent of the college authorities, young Barnitz, associated with others of like mind, began a daily prayer meeting in the college chapel. The first meeting was led by its chief organizer, and the fruits of the meetings were long after seen and felt in the institution. Active in all good work in the college and in the community, conducting a Sunday School regularly two miles out of Gettysburg, the first year closed hopefully. The next year was begun in regular course, with advancement to the next higher class, but the labors and application of the previous year, combined with worry over finances, compelled an abandonment of studies, with a temporary giving up of the idea of entering the ministry. The thought of defeat at the very beginning was intolerable. Melancholy came; all was in gloom, the outlook dark. The physicians ordered the student to leave the college and return home to recuperate. This was always regarded by Dr. Barnitz as the darkest hour of his life, as he saw the cherished expectation of his heart dissolve into nothing. He went back into business life, entering a store where he had an agreement that he might do only so much labor as his health would permit. Gradually he gained in strength so that he was shortly able to enter upon labors for the Tract Society, the Sunday School Union, and the Lutheran Publication House. The outdoor life in Western Pennsylvania, whither he was sent by the Tract Society, brought back such a favorable condition of health that by a unanimous vote of the Theological

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Seminary faculty he was admitted to the theological school at Gettysburg without completing his college course.

At the seminary he made good progress, by constant care, improving in health, so that his prospects for usefulness in the ministry grew brighter as time passed on. The daily prayer meeting at the college continued to interest the theological student, as did the country Sunday School previously organized. Samuel Barnitz was the kind of boy, man, missionary, and secretary that when he once took hold he never let go.

During all the preparatory period, and while in the theological seminary, he tells us in the brief autobiographical sketch which he prepared at the request of Mr. Geo. H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, he was in greatly straitened financial condition. "I oftimes knew not where money to pay my board would come from, yet it always came in time. God never forsakes."

One notable incident during the seminary career was the walk to Niagara Falls planned by Mr. Barnitz. Several congenial spirits entered into the project, and carried it out to the delight and benefit of the whole party. They did not go as hoboes, but it is needless to say they did not stop at any first-class hotels on the way. The party v^as strictly personally conducted by "Sam Barnitz," as he was familiarly known in those days. He arranged to represent the American Sunday

School Union, and by writing ahead had the dates set for meetings, including entertainment of his party. In those days (the Spring of i860), it was counted a considerable undertaking to start out on a tramping tour of such extent. Many are the traditions of the trail of sunshine, innocent sport, interesting incidents and strange experiences occurring during the journey. The outing was most beneficial to the theological student, both in physical results, and in gathering that knowledge of men and things by which he was afterwards to be made successful. He was a born missionary, and turned even his vacation into a season of helpfulness to the great work to which he was called.

CHAPTER III. AS HIS FRIENDS SAW HIM AT COI.IvE:GE

Dr. Barnitz was always a unique personality, impressing himself from college days upon those about him. One of his contemporaries has furnished a contribution recalling the York boy as he appeared at Gettysburg in the autumn of 1857. It is so nearly a photograph that we reproduce it entire :

SAMUEL B. BARNITZ AT PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE.

BY LEONARD GROH, D. D., 01^ OMAHA, NEB.

It was in the Fall of 1857 we first met. He was in the Preparatory. I was Freshman. He hailed from the City of York, hence had enjoyed more advantages of culture than some of us, who had not seen Hfe except as found on the the farm. He had lately made up his mind to become a minister of the Word. He was genial, sincere, enthusiastic. He had labored in Sunday Schools. His ready utterance, deep solemnity of voice, and manifest devotion, had gained him warm friends and many favorable recognitions. Therefore he came with courage and a fair share of innocent self-complacency. The latter soon received several rude shocks. One of these came as follows : He called on Dr. Baugher, Sr., then President of the College. He found a young man in the office. This young gentleman was always neat, dignified, rather stylishly striking in appearance. He had the faculty of putting together most magniloquently, grandiloquent sentences to express very common-place ideas. When Brother Barnitz entered, Mr. H. was just getting off some of his fine phrases. Among the rest of the things said, he related his experience on his uncle's "villa," not far from Baltimore, which made a deeply discouraging impression on Brother Barnitz. He was greatly relieved, however, as he told me afterward, when Dr. Baugher drew down the corners of his mouth and asked Mr. H. how long he had lived on his uncle's "farm"? He also visited the Senior class-room and heard these learned gentlemen "scan Latin poetry." Other similar occurrences, with even some Freshman "passing by on the other side," not noticing him at all, had the effect Solomon's glory had on the Queen of Sheba.

"There was no more spirit in him." He wrote to his pastor, Dr. Lilly, of York : "I'll come home. Can't stay here. I'll give it up. There's no use trying, I find that I know nothing at all !" Dr. Lilly quickly replied : "I am delighted with your letter. You are a very promising student. In three weeks you've learned that you knew essentially nothing. Some don't learn that much in a year Some even never learn it. You stay. I have the best hopes for you !" He stayed. To what purpose the church and the world know.

He and I became good friends then. Our fraternal unity

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continued unbroken as long as he lived. As I now recall him in those days, he was a youth whose longitude of stature and limb was somewhat out of proportion to their latitude. Tall, slender, black hair, abundant and glossy, fair of complexion, a pronouncedly rosy tint on the cheeks, describes him. (Here permit a long parenthesis. I speak freely of his appearance. During more than 40 years I was often taken for Brother Barnitz. I could never see myself, in this respect, as others saw me. The description above given wouldn't fit me badly, save that he was a little taller and more slender, I,ater on both added a black, full beard. As years passed hair and beard bleached, never becoming white in either of us. While I was taken for him in the East, so many years ago, it was the same in the West in later times. Even since he is asleep, having gone to "the spirits of just men made perfect," I was asked whether I wasn't Dr. Barnitz.) He did not finish his full course at College. Physicians advised him to take a short cut into the ministry. The reason given was, he wouldn't live many years. The Lord granted him 42 years, with varied, abundant and successful labors in the sacred calling.

His complacency, so rudely shocked at first, speedily came back to him. He learned that even Seniors hadn't reached the boundary of knowledge ; that his friend H. had limitations; that the villa he described with such glowing beauty was a one-horse farm; that some of these learned young gentlemen couldn't address a Sunday School or prayer meeting with half the edification he could. He was reassured. He was liked at College. Genial, companionable, always dignified, he could never take part in any small tricks of college boys. His earnest devotion always brought him to the front in any religious movement. He did not stay long enough to be generally known. Those who knew him, loved him for his candor and 'high sense of honor, sanctified humor, conscientiousness and sincere consecration to the work ahead, in the "ministry of reconciliation." He never approved of or abetted a wrong — not even in fun. His religion wasn't in sentiment, but ingrained into life — not only "Christ for us, but also Christ in us."

Chapter IV. Leaving Gettysburg

During Mr. Barnitz's last term at the theological school at Gettysburg he labored much in the revival work then in vogue in many of our Lutheran churches, as indeed throughout most of the Protestant churches of the country. His labors were largely confined at that time to the region of York and Adams Counties. He made a first visit to the City of Philadelphia, attending the National Sunday School Convention. It was on the occasion of that visit that he first met Mr. Geo. H. Stuart, President of the Young Men's Christian Association, and later the head of the Christian Commission during the Civil War. This acquaintance opened into larger fields of usefulness, and made a great impression for good at the time. In subsequent years Dr. Barnitz had opportunity to express his indebtedness to Mr. Stuart, of whom he says: ''To Bro. Stuart, under God, I am indebted for much of the success of my religious life." In the last year at the seminary Dr. Barnitz accepted the chaplaincy of Lutherville Female Seminary, (now Maryland College for Women).

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He usually left Gettysburg on Saturday, preached at Lutherville on Sunday, and returned to his studies Monday morning. So from the beginning our friend was a busy worker, taking advantage of every opportunity to sow the good seed. The hand of the Lord was manifest in these preliminary labors, fitting the worker for his work.