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from the requisition to which Jbte was subject . To escape this sort of per secution he was obliged to retire to a place in wibich lie was less known . For some months he enjoyed a sweet repose in the country , in the bosom of his family ; but being again disturbed , he accepted a trifling office ,
that of a secretary in the municipality of Ribeauville , a small town of Upper Alsatia ; and afterwards that of agent of the Republic for collecting the ordinary revenues in the conepiered provinces of Germany . In filling the latter office , which lasted two months ,
JV 1 . Goepp saw and had the opportunity of obli g ing some persons who had rendered hnn service during the time of his captivity ; he afterwards enjoyed the consoling remembrance of having doae some good , and prevented a great deal of evil .
Towards the end of 1 / 96 it became possible for him again to give his attention seriously and in a more connected manner to his religious studies . Strasburg became once more the place of his abode : lie . returned to the
instructions of his former professors , and in going over again the course of study he had formerly pursued , endeavoured to perfect himself in the knowledge of evexy subject to which he had attended . His course of philosophical and theological study had
been nearly concluded before his military expedition . He had still to go through one examination in Theology , and to receive holy orders . He underwent the examination in 1797 ; permission was granted him to preach and to perform all the functions of a
pastor ; but as he deferred taking upon him the superintendence of a congregation , he thought it right to defer W < ewise the taking of holy orders . j he two chief causes of M . Goepp ' s declining for the present the office of pastor were , first , his desire to study '"ore deeply the theological subjects rom which his attention had been too ' ° nff distracted ; and , secondly , the —* auuaiion
r ««« ^ or me ministers in ^ satia , the majority of whom , in con-*^ ue nce of the suppression of tithes withe loss of the ecclesiastical possessions , were reduced to entire depen-Jnoe on their parishioners , and by ££ ***** frequently rendered destifi o * d c « P * &fl % of usefulness
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Whilst waiting for more favourable times ,, M . Goepp smdertook the education of the sons of sa . iron-master , whose works were mJt the foot of Donon , ome of the highest mountains amongst the f ^ osges , ten leagues from Strasburg . He passed the summer
with his pupils in finis wild country , and the winter in the city . He memained six years with this family ; they were Catholics , and they spoke the French language . The pupils gave satisfaction to M . Goepp , and he cannot but think with pleasing interest of
the moments lie spent with them . He must likewise regard himself as particularly under the guidance of Providence in connecting himself with these persons ; for with them he acquired that facility of Speaking and writing French which , as a native of Alsatia , he did not possess , and which eventually fitted him for the various situations in the Church to which he
was successively called . Whilst employed as a preceptor , he received from several congregations a call which he declined to accept ; but in the year 1802 , he had an invitation to which he thought it his duty to return a favourable answer . The
situation offered was that of second pastor of the French Church at Strasburg $ it afforded not the pecuniary advantages which M . Goepp mi g ht have enjoyed in a good German village ; he considered it , however , as possessing a
preferable claim to his services , because there was not aj that time any candidate sufficiently familiar with the French tongue to be eligible to it ; and also because it presented stronger motives for the improvement of his pulpit talents , than a living in the country would have afforded . Besides ,
the service was to be performed by the second pastor but once in three Sundays , and this duty would , for a time at least , be compatible with that of a preceptor which he had not yet renounced . M M . Hoenn acceoted the nounced . . Goepp accepted the
situation , and his inaugural sermon was preached at Easter , 1802 . In the following year he entered on an additional office , that of chaplain to the Lyceum ; which obliged him to relinquish his situation as tutor . In 1806 , he went for six months to Paris , in order to perfect himself in the language and literature , and especially in the style of preaching , of the French .
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A ft Account of the Prvteelant Cfturcka in Paris . 2 S 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/13/
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