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blessings of Providence, they had considerably extended
their landed domains, increased their flocks, and filled
their coffers, so that the question which once engaged
the attention of Abraham and Lot, at their parting,
now agitated the minds of the Schultz brothers. The
result was, Melchior and Christopher sold out to their
elder brother George; the former went about three
miles north, bought a farm there; Christopher, having
married in 1744, now bought and settled on what is at
present the fine farm of his great-grandson; Henry S.
Schultz, near Clayton, Berks County. Here he lived
to the end of his life. Let us here take a short retrospective
glance at the situation of our plundered and
persecuted Pilgrim fathers in their temporary home in
Saxony, which certainly was not one of ease and comfort,
and the family of Melchior Schultz was no exception
to this; and when death came, removing a
kind father and a loving mother, the three orphan boys
must have felt like lambs cut off from the flock and
left alone in the wilderness. There was yet one way
left for them; their united bleatings could be heard by
the ever-listening ear of the Good Shepherd on high.
But we were going to say, situated as they then were,
a liberal school education was out of the question. In
this dilemma they may have taken the advice of St.
James, 1:5. Be this as it may, in Christopher
Schultz we find a learned man with very little schooling.
His marvellous memory, and all his mental and
spiritual faculties, were of the highest order, and he
was an industrious and attentive reader. Among the
early Fathers of the Church St. Augustine seems to
have been one of his principal favorites. Among the
German reformers of a later day, Schwenkfeld was
pre-eminently so.