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restored during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Here Hans Isenberg studied for two years and a
half, enduring with his colleagues the ordeal of preaching in the abbey church before the audience of peasants,
who came from all the country round especially to hear
the first sermons of young candidates and to form shrewd
opinions as to their qualifications for the ministerial office.
The Abbot and likewise an instructor at Kloster Loccum
was the distinguished Dr. Gerhard Uhlhorn, who had
been at one time court chaplain to the king of Hanover
and was the writer of many theological treatises, which
are still authorities and several of which may be found
today in the spacious, book-lined study of Pastor Hans
Isenberg at Lihue. Some thought Abbot Uhlhorn too
orthodox even in those days, but to Hans Isenberg his
influence was stimulating and valuable.
Graduated with distinction from this theological college, the young pastor, Rev. Hans Isenberg, might have
chosen from a number of attractive parishes, but his wife's
health was his first consideration and physicians were
agreed that if she could live anywhere in safety from the
little-understood scourge of tuberculosis, that place
would be at a considerable altitude in a dry climate. To
St. Andreasberg the young couple therefore went, at an
altitude of almost two thousand feet in the upper Harz
Mountains of Prussia, where they settled for the next
three years with their new possessions in their end of
the big parsonage. At the other end of the house was
the dwelling of the older pastor, and between the two
was the schoolhouse, all under one long roof, but quite
separate from each other. As is customary in such
appointments, part of the younger pastor's work was to
teach in the ordinary parish school, a far less stimulating occupation than an incumbency connected with
a higher school or perhaps a university. But young
Pastor Hans buckled to with a will, like his father