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The Life of Rev. Michael Schlatter: With a Full Account of His Travels and Labors Among the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and ... War, and in the War of the Revolution; 1716
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The records of an earnest and laborious life, nearly half a century of which was spent in the religious interests of the Germans in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia - a life, too, belonging entirely to the last century, including what may be called the formative period in Church and State, and extending through the perils of our country's two tedious wars - can hardly fail to possess some interest to all who arc wont to commune with the past.
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Henry Harbaugh was a German Reformed clergyman and writer. He was also professor of Theology at Mercersburg Academy, Pennsylvania.
Background
Henry Harbaugh was born on October 28, 1817, in Washington Township, Pennsylvania, United States, the tenth of the twelve children of George and Anna (Snyder) Harbaugh. He was a great-grandson of Yost Harbaugh, a Swiss, who came to Pennsylvania about 1736 and settled eventually on Kreutz Creek in York County. Yost’s descendants were devout, industrious, thrifty folk with little book-learning or concern for affairs beyond the confines of their parish.
Education
Henry attended a school in winter and conned an English grammar while the plowhorse rested in the furrow. With his parents’ reluctant consent he left home early in August 1836 and spent the next few years in Stark, Tuscarawas, and Carroll counties, Ohio, where he attended the New Hagerstown Academy. From 1840 to 1843 he was a student in Marshall College and the Seminary at Mercersburg in his native county.
Career
Licensed to preach October 17, 1843, at Winchester, Virginia, Henry Harbaugh was pastor of the Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1843-1850, the First Church, Lancaster, 1850-1860, and St. John’s, Lebanon, 1860-1863.
Harbaugh wrote constantly and well. In 1850 he launched a monthly magazine, the Guardian, and conducted it until December 1866, when he turned it over to Benjamin Bausman and revived the Mercersburg Review. Besides numerous minor publications and contributions to periodicals he was the author of The Sainted Dead (1848); Heavenly Recognition (1851); The Heavenly Home (1853); Union with the Church (1853) ; The Birds of the Bible (1854); Life of Michael Schlatter (1857); Fathers of the German Reformed Church (2 vols. , 185758); The True Glory of Woman (1858); Poems (1860); The Golden Censer (1860); and Christological Theology (1864). A third volume of the Fathers of the German Reformed Church (1872) was edited for him after his death by David Y. Heisler, who added two more volumes to the series. He compiled a history of his family and was indefatigable in his search for papers, documents and traditions pertinent to the Reformed Church in Pennsylvania.
At the suggestion of Philip Schaff, who showed him Emanuel Rondthaler’s “Morgeds un Oweds” (1835), he produced a number of poems in the Pennsylvania-German dialect. Though he owed something to Burns and to Johann Peter Hebei, about whom he wrote an enthusiastic essay, Harbaugh was himself a genuine folk poet. The dialect was his mother tongue; he spoke it with a hearty appreciation of its earthy flavors and communicated through it, as he could have through no other medium, the reminiscences, whether tender or humorous, of his childhood and early youth. Fifteen of these poems were collected and published by Bausman as Harbaugh’s Harfe (1870), which has been kept in print for over sixty years.
A pulpit orator of extraordinary power, Harbaugh filled the great churches of eastern Pennsylvania to overflowing wherever he preached. He was an active member of the committees that framed the Liturgy, or Order of Christian Worship (1857) and the Order of Worship for the Reformed Church (1866) and bore the brunt of the attack which they provoked from the conservative anti-liturgical wing of the denomination. In his own church at Lancaster Harbaugh was unable to preserve anything approaching unanimity of feeling, and in consequence he withdrew to the charge at Lebanon.
In 1863 he was called to Mercersburg as professor in the Theological Seminary, and there during the few years still allowed him he did his best work. His theological lectures (preserved in manuscript in the Seminary archives at Lancaster) are still considered the best formulation of the Christological theology of his school. He died, at the height of his powers, after an illness of several months and was buried at Mercersburg.
Harbaugh was described as a man of senatorial appearances, purposeful and serious, but with a fine sense of humor as well.
Connections
Harbaugh was married twice: on December 14, 1843, to Louisa Goodrich of New Hagerstown, Ohio, who died September 26, 1847, while visiting her parents; and on November 14, 1848, to Maria Louisa Linn of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.