Excerpt from History of the Christian Church, Vol. 4

When, forty-five years ago, we met in the house of Tholuck at Halle, then in Neander"s lecture-room at Berlin, and two years later in St. Peter"s and on the Capitol at Rome, and wandered over the ruins of the

urbs aterna, qua nihil possis visere majus,

we did not dream of ever seeing each other in your native land, still less of becoming colleagues there in the same institution of sacred learning. But this thought occurred to me even then: If Prentiss is a fair specimen of his countrymen, I would not object to live and labor among them.

I was not mistaken in you, nor disappointed in America. That Providence which shapes our ends far better than we could do ourselves, brought us together in the most congenial field of labor, where German, English, and American ideas and learning find a hospitable home and hopeful pupils. The recent festival of dedication of the new buildings on Lenox Hill marks an epoch in the history of our beloved Seminary, and makes us more willing than ever to devote the remainder of our lives to its service and welfare. May every year be a "step heaven ward," till we reach heaven itself to meet our beloved friends and coworkers who have already passed from the theology of faith to the theology of beatific vision.

Yours, in unbroken friendship.

Philip Schaff.

New York, Union Theological Seminary.

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