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Dr. Smyth published in all about thirty volumes. The most popular, though less in size, are " The Well in the Valley," " Why do I live," and " The volumes on Missions." His larger volumes on Church Polity have been much valued by those of our own faith most competent to judge. " But by most men of my acquaintance was he endowed richly by nature with all the qualifications of the most consummate ora- tors. He was not so great in the pulpit where he generally (during most of his life) read his sermons, as in the lecture room, nor was he so great in the lecture room as he was on the platform, nor was he so great on the floor of the deliber- ative assembly, when he was on the strong side as when he was on the weak one. But in reply and for a lost cause, as it seemed, and when there was no hope left for his side appa- rently, then was Dr. Smyth strong, and then was he danger- ous to his opponents."
When the author of this history was appointed the histori- ographer of the Synod, he was directed to write down to the year 1850. It was with great reluctance that the office was accepted, and it was more out of deference to the authority of Synod than from any inclination for such labors that he gained his own consent to undertake it. It has occupied much of the time which perhaps should have been devoted to other pursuits. It has, however, been the time of his vaca- tions, and there has been this infelicity that it has not been written as one continuous narrative, but at these distinct in-
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ervals. The long delay in bringing the work to the press duced the author to invite communications relative to the ater history of the churches, and of these he received a con- derable number, intending to bring the history down to a ater period than the appointment of the Synod required. But he advice of brethren, whose judgment he respected, united with the condition of his own health, which had become very precarious during the summer, decided .him when he had eached a certain portion of the last decade, to abandon his urpose of bringing the history down to the present times.
It was further urged by most judicious brethren that the eriod between the year of 1850 and the present, including hat of the late civil war, required a more elaborate treatment han I could now give it. The year 1850 by all means, they aid, was the place where this volume should close. I began herefore to withhold what I had received or written of a ter date, and give forth the work with all its imperfections s it now is. And yet I take the liberty of adding the follow- .
og as an Appendix to the preceding history.
APPENDIX.
The following is a list of the churches organized in Har- nony Presbytery since the last decade :
1849-50-Pisgah on Sandy Run, belonged once to Fay- tteville Presbytery ; 1851-Marion ; 1851-Liberty Hill ; 853-Lynchburg; 1855 -- Manning, Bennettsville; 1856-Elon; 858-Red Bluff, Kingston ; 1859-Turkey Creek ; 1861- florence ; 1863-Union ; 1867-Beulah, Centre Point; 1871- Sentyre ; 1874-Bethel, Fairhope; 1876-Tirzah; 1881- Hayesville and Wedgefield. In 1875 Herman Church, ormerly known as Pine Hill, was dissolved. In 1873 White Oak was dissolved and merged into Indian Town. In 855 Harmony Church was merged into Manning. Bethel Church is the offspring of the old Midway Church and for many years was called Bethel Chapel.
The following churches in Bethel Presbytery have been rganized since 1850:
ALLISON CREEK, nine miles east of Yorkville, in 1853.
Zios, eight and three-quarter miles north of Chester, organized in 855, with eleven members and three elders.
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DOUGLAS, four and a half miles southwest from Lancasterville, organ- ized May 23d, 1858-ten members and one elder.
GRINDAL SHOALS, on Pacolet, in Union County, organized August 27, 1859-thirteen members and one elder.
OLIVET, nine or ten miles south of Yorkville, reported October 8, 1868-twenty-seven members, four elders, three deacons.
ROCK HILL, in York County, organized in 1870.
ENOREE, in Union County, nine or ten miles south west of Unionville, reported April 4, 1872.
MIzrEn, about twelve miles southwest of Chesterville C. H., reported to Presbytery, organized November 29, 1873.
MT. VERNON, in Union County, six or seven miles south of Court House, reported October, 1878.
RAMAN, in York County, ten or eleven miles north of Court House, and south of King's Mountain, reported April 1, 1880.
CLOVER, in York County, six miles north of Yorkville, organized July 29, 1881-eighty-four members, chiefly from Bethel congregation.
SMYRNA, in Chester County, five miles east of Court House, organized November 18, 1881; ten members, two elders, two deacons.
MT. PLEASANT, in Chester County, twelve or fourteen miles north west of Court House, on waters of Turkey Creek, reported organized Decem- ber 14, 1881.
LONG TOWN, in Fairfield County, about nine miles east of Ridgeway, organized in 1882.
At the meeting of the Synod of South Carolina, in 1878 the churches and ministers of the Presbyteries of Bethel and South Carolina, in the counties of Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens and Union, were set off as a new Presbytery to be called the Presbytery of ENOREE. The following is a list of the ministers who entered at the organization :
NAMES.
POST OFFICE. WHEN ORDAINED.
F. Jacobs, D. D.
Laurens C. H., S. C. 1837
Z. L. Holmes,
1843
Clark B. Stewart,
Fairview,
1846
Robt. H. Reid,
Reidville,
1850
A. A. James,
Jonesville,
1851
J. S. Bailey,
Union C. H.,
1853
H. T. Morton,
Greenville, .€
1859
Thos. H. Law,
Spartanburg,
1862
Wm. P. Jacobs,
Clinton, ",
1864
A. P. Nicholson,
Laurens C. H.,
1869
Robt. H. Nall,
Greenville,
1869
Alfred L. Miller,
Spartanburg,
1875
B. G. Clifford,
Union C. H.,
1876
Received in 1879
James Y. Fair,
Laurens C. H., S. C. 1876
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The historical notices of these churches will be found in the preceding pages.
The following have been organized since the year 1850:
CLINTON, 1855.
Rev. Wm. P. Jacobs, Pastor.
ELDERS
E. T. Copeland, Clinton, R. S. Phinney, ،،
W. B. Bell,
J. J. Boozer,
The following exhibits the Presbytery of South Carolina as t now is :
MINISTERS.
NAMES.
P. O.
ORDAINED
ENROLLED,
V. Carlisle, (Dec'd.),
1831,
Spring, 1857
Vm. McWhorter,
Bachelor's Rtrt,
1838,
1842
. F. Gibert,
Abbeville, S. C.,
Nov. 24, 1838. Apr. 18, 1846,
Apr. 18, 1846
C. F. Hyde,
Townville,
Spring, 1845,
Spring, 1845
V. F. Pearson,
Dne West,
June 9, 1860,
June 9, 1860
I. MeLees, I. Strong,
Liberty,
Oct., 1863,
Oct.,
1863
. L. Martin,
Abbeville,
Sept. 2, 1870,
Sept. 2, 1870
D. E Frierson, D. D ..
Anderson,
Apr.,
1871
R. A. Fair,
Newberry,
June 18, 1871,
June 18, 1871
. C. Ligon,
Anderson,
June 29, 1882,
June 29, 1872
&, C. Ligon,
Stony Point,
Nov 18, 1876,
Nov. 18, 1876
6. L. Morris, ". E. Davis,
Seneca,
Apr. 21, 1877, 1845,
Fall
1877
S. P. Davis,
Bold Branch,
Nov. 3, 1877,
Nov. 3, 1877
A. E. Norris,
Cokesbury,
Apr. 10, 1880,
Apr. 10, 1880
Deposed at Ninety-Six
Apr
1882
Nov. 24, 1838
ohn McLees, (dec'd.),
. O. Lindsay, D. D,
Due West,
About 1846,
Apr., 1847
. R. Riley, D. D.,
Walhalla,
Walhalla,
Dec. 9,1870,
Dec.
9, 1870
Trenton,
Apr. 21, 1877
. B. Adger, D. D.,
Pendleton, S. C., Spring, 1834,
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TRANSFERRED LAST SPRING.
NAMES.
P. O. ORDAINED.
ENROLLED.
J. L. Brownlee,
Brandon, Miss , Oct. 28, 1880,
Oct. 28, 1880
H. C. Fennel,
Monterey,
Oct., 1879, Apr. 7, 1881
W. G. Neville,
Ninety-Six,
Apr. 9, 1882,
Apr. 9, 1882
F. P. Mullally, D. D., Walhalla,
Sept. - 14, 1882
A. P. Nicholson,
New Pickens, 1869,
Sept. 14, 1882
CHURCHES ORGANIZED SINCE 1850.
Bethia .
Nov. 4, 1849
Retreat
Apr. 5, 1851
Zion Church .
1855
Mt. Bethel .
Nov. 27, 1852
Ninety-Six .
July 14, 1860
Abbeville
Apr. 22, 1866
Walhalla . .
Dec. 3, 1868
George's Creek, (now Mt. Pleasant),
Nov. 1873
Cokesbury
Feb. 21, 1874
Seneca .
1876 (?) or 75
Edgefield
May 26, 1877
New Pickens .
July 27, 1878
Ebenezer . .
Nov. 16, 1879
Westminster
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LIST OF DECEASED MINISTERS.
It has been a source of regret to the writer that he should be pre- cluded from introducing memorial notices of those brethren who were. active in the church down to the period of 1850 but who have died since. Some have been noticed on our preceding pages, but however appropriate the custom of formal memorials of departed brethren, this did not precail in the Synod. till 1851, when a memoria! was adopted at the news of the death of Dr. Archibald Alexander, who died on the 22d of October, and of that of Win. Anderson McDowell, D. D., who died on the 17th of September in that year. The obituary record of Rev. S. B. Lewers, whose devoted and eniinently useful life closed in 1852. may be found in the Synodical Minutes of that year, p. 17 ; of Rev. J. J. Dubose, on p 20; of Rev. R. B. Walker. who died on the 10th of April of that year, in the 86th year of his age, having spent forty years of his active life in the duties of the ministry, p. 21. In the printed minutes of 1853, the death of four ministers -Hugh Dickson, Joseph Wallace, Zabdiel Rogers, and Wm. L. Hughes-are mentioned ; of Rev. W. L. Hughes, cut off in the prime of life ; of Rev. Hugh Dickson who died July 9th, 1853, at the age of 81, having preached the gospel for more than half a century, full notices are given. ( Printed Minutes, pp. 21, 2 ;. ) Of Rev. Win. B. Davies, who had served in the ministry some thirty years, and whose ministry, especially of late, had been exceedingly blessed, a me-
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morial is found, printed minutes of 1855, p. 31. The Rev. A. Bui de- parted this life at the advanced age of 83 years, minutes of 1857, p. 12. The Rev. Reuben Post, D. D., who departed this life September 24th, 1858, minutes, p. 28. Memorial of Rev. W. H. Johnston, who died June 19, 1859, in his 40th year, minutes, 1859, p. 22. Of the Rev. Pierpont Ed- wards Bishop, p 28. Of the Rev. Joseph Brown, who died May 17, 1859, in the 64th year of his age, p. 25th. Of Prof. Bazile E. Lanneau, 1860, p. 18. Of Rev. John Harrington, who died December, 1859, in his 69th year. Of Rev. John LeRoy Davies, who died June 16, 1860, in his 61st year, minutes of 1860, p. 25. Of Geo. Cooper Gregg, who died May 28, 1861, minutes, p. 16. Of A. W. Ross, who died October 2d, 1861. Of Elder James K. Douglas, of Camden, p. 64, 1861. Of Malcom Douglas Fraser, who died in the spring of 1862. in the 49th year of his age Of Rev. James MeEwen Hall Adams, pastor at Yorkville, and Professor in the Female Academy, who died, deeply lamented, March 31st, 1862. Memorial of Rev. James Henly Thornwell, D. D., LL.D., from the pen of Dr. Adger, minutes of 1862, p. 19. Of Rev. Thos. Livingston Mc- Bryde, D. D., who died April 15, 1863. Of Rev. W. C. Sutton, who died February 13, 1869. Of Rev. Thos. Reese English, who died in April, 1869, in his 63d year, having been a successful preacher of the gospel for some thirty-seven years. For the memoir of Rev. David Humphreys, who died September 29. 1869, see p. 391 of this history. The Rev. Samuel J. Price departed this life at Lancaster C. H , S. C., November 1st, 1871, minutes of 1871, p. 11. A memoriai of Rev. A. W. Leland, D. D., born October 1, 1787, died November 2d, 1871, Professor in the Theological Seminary, may be found in the minutes of 1871, p. 11, and of Rev. Geo. W. Boggs, missionary to Hindostan, on p 13. Of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D., who died August 20th, 1873, in his 66th year, minutes of 1873, p. 14, also p. 761 of this history.
The death of Rev. Win. Banks, who served the Master so ably for a period of thirty-five years, from. 1840 to 1875, and was for years the stated clerk of his Presbytery, and of the Synod, died on the 17th of March, 1875. Of him a record is made in the minutes of Synod for that year, p. 13 So also of Rev. Wm. States Lee, pastor at Dorchester, and at Edisto, who died July 28, 1875, minutes, pp. 15, 16. Of Rev. Gilbert Morgan, D. D., who died May 27th, 1875, at the age of S4, p. 16. Of John Leland Kennedy, who preached the gospel for nearly fifty years, min- utes of 1877, p. 12. Of Edward Tonge Buist, D. D., who died November 10, 1877, at the age of 68; see also the Necrology of the graduates of Princeton Seminary. A memorial of Rev. Donald MeQueen. D. D., is found at p. 22 of the Synod's records for 1880.
The death of Rev. Thomas Hood Cunningham, pastor of the mission- ary church (Ebenezer) in Charleston, died on the 9th of March. 1880, greatly beloved and deeply lamented, minutes, p. 23. The same minutes record the death of Rey. William Hooper Adams, formerly pastor of the Circular Church in Charleston, who died on the 14th of May, 1880, at the age of 42, p. 25.
The same minutes, p. 26, record the death of Rev. William Swan Plumer, D. D., LL.D., Professor in the Theological Seminary, for fifty- three years a minister of the gospel, during which he labored as an evangelist, then as pastor in various important churches, as of Peters- burg, Richmond, Baltimore, then as professor and pastor for eight years at Allegheny, and professor for thirteen years at Columbia, and who died October 22, 1880. Of William Carlisle, who died March 23d, 1881, in his 84th year, having accomplished a large amount of missionary
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labor in his early years, minutes, 1881, p. 14. Of Rev. Edward Palmer, brother of Dr. B. M. Palmer, the first of that name. and father of the present B. M Palner, D. D., and of E. P. Palmer, D. D., of whom an interesting memoir has been written by his son and who was the oldest minister of his Presbytery and the Synod at the time of his death, Sep- tember 30th, 1882, minutes of Synod, pp. 17, 20. In the same minutes, pp. 21. 22, is recorded the death of the Rev. Wm. Brearly, who preach- ed the gospel seventeen years in Winnsboro' and thirty-seven years in Darlington. and died January 8, 1882. Of John McLees, we have spoken, p. 393, for thirty-seven years a successful minister of Christ, minutes of 1882, pp. 22, 24.
In the same minutes, p. 25, is a memorial of Rev. James Consar, son of Rev. Jas. A. Cousar (so long stated clerk of the Presbytery of Harmony), who pursued his studies at Oglethorpe and the Seminary of Columbia, and lived to preach the gospel for twenty-seven years, until his ministry was closed by his decease, on the 7th of January, 1882. On p. 26, the death of Rev. E. H. Buist, of Cheraw, is recorded, son of Rev. Arthur Buist, of the First Presbyterian Church of Charleston ; brought up by his uncle, Rev. E. T. Buist, D. D , graduated at South Carolina College with high distinction, finished his studies at the Theological Seminary in Columbia, and was pastor at Newberry, and afterwards, in 1868, at Cheraw, where he died on the 11th of September, 1882.
The Rev. Henry Robertson Dickson, while pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Yorkville, in 1867, was called to the pastorate of the First Reformed Dutch of Brooklyn, N. Y .; was taken sick March 3d, in Brook- lyn, and died on March 8th, in the early part of the second year of his ministry in that city. He was the sou of Dr. John Dickson, of Charles- ton ; his mother, Mary Augusta (daughter of Andrew Flynn, D. D.), died while he was quite young. He was a graduate of Charleston College, and a student of the Theological Seminary at Columbia. His first pas- toral charge was at Willtown, Colleton County, S. C. He had been deeply afflicted. First, a beloved niece had been taken from him, then his only daughter, then he himself, was taken with acute pneumonia, which in a few days terminated his life.
Rev. P. M. Mckay was born in Embro, in the province of Ontario, Canada, January 10, 1847 ; died in Madison, Florida, March 8, 1875. He entered Knox College. Toronto, Canada, and removing to Florida be- came a member of the church in Lake City ; and in April, 1871, was ta+ ken under the care of the Presbytery of Florida, and ordered to pursue his course in Theology at Columbia, in which institution he remained till near the close of the second year IIe was licensed in April, 1873, ordained and installed over the churches of Madison and Oakland on the 29th day of November. As a pastor, full of affection and sympathy ; as a preacher, earnest and effective. Minutes of 1875, p. 10
Rev. Charles Malone Richards, born in Madison County, Alabama, a graduate of Davidson College, who finished his course in the Seminary with the class of 1869; died at Cincinnati, Arkansas, on the 5th of July, 1872. He had entered the Seminary in 1861, and remained till the Spring of 1862, when on returning home he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army, and was soon after made a Lieutenant in the cavalry. In an engagement which afterwards occurred he was shot in both knees, and from this wound he never recovered. He returned to the Seminary in the Antuinn of 1867, and finished his course with the class of 1869 He was ordained to the full work of the ministry at Jacksons- port, Arkansas, April 11th, 1870. He died at Cincinnati, Ark., whither
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he had gone to fill an appointment, and it is supposed that the wound he had received was the main cause of his death.
Our sister Synod, of Georgia, since her separation from us has met with similar losses, and paid corresponding tributes to the inemory of her dead. The first she had occasion to mention was the Rev. Thomas Goulding, D. D., the first Professor in the Theological Seminary, whose removal she mourns, and to whom she pays a fitting tribute Minutes of her 4th session, held at Columbus, in 1848, p. 25. She expresses printed minutes of 1851), her sincere regret at the death of Rev. Dr. William Mc Whir, the oldest member of the Synod ; a native of Ireland, licensed by the Presbytery of Killeabah ; came to this country soon after the Revolution ; was Principal of the High School at Alexandria, Va., under the patronage of General Washington. Thenee he removed to Sunbury, in Georgia, the head of a famous school to which many, both male and female, were attracted. He had no pastoral charge, but preached where his services were needed. He founded a church at Mandarin, in Florida, and was active in organizing the church at St. Augustine.
The Rev. J. C. Humphrey was a native of the State of New York, who came in early manhood to the State of Georgia in search of health, und at that time an avowed unbeliever. A good Elder with whom he resided put into his hands Nelson on Infidelity, which convinced him of the truth of Christianity, and was blest to his conversion. He then became anxious to preach the gospel which was now his solace and peace. As a candidate of Flint River Presbytery he entered the Semi- nary at Columbia, became temporarily the supply of the church in Au- gusta, where his health failed. He served afterwards as an Evangelist of the Presbytery of Hopewell. He was a man of talents, but most eminently a man of prayer. Death came early but it had no sting. His ministry on earth was short, but not unfruitful. Minutes of Synod of Georgia, 1859, p. 22.
The Rev. S. J. Cassels was born in Liberty County, Georgia. in 1806; became a subject of renewing grace in early life, and felt himself called to the ministry. He was graduated at Frankiin College, in 1828, and pursued his Thelogical studies under Dr. Waddel. He was called to the pastoral care of the church at Washington, Wilkes County ; then to the church in Macon ; then to Norfolk, in Virginia. He was much gifted as a preacher, and blest in winning souls to Christ. His health gave way under his abundant labors. He settled then in Savannah, became Principal of Chatham Academy, and in that position died in an unshak- en and triumphant hope of blessed immortality. Minutes of 1853, p. 17.
The minutes of the Georgia Synod for 1854, p. 11, record the death of Rev. Benjamin Burroughs, a native of Savannah, a graduate of Union College, who pursued his Theological studies at Princeton. He was minister, at different times, at Milledgeville, Tallahassee and White Bluff, and was blest with at least one extensive revival of religion. He labored also as city missionary in Savannah, and fell a victim to the fever prevailing in that city during the Summer and Fall of that year, dying in full expectation of a blessed immortality.
The same minutes, p. 16, record the death of Rev Jesse W. Hume, a native of Tennessee, a graduate of the College of Nashville, and of the Theological Seminary at Princeton. Obliged to seek a milder climate he came to Florida in 1850, and was soon after installed over the church at Tallahassee, where he labored for over two years with signal ability. He was a man of no ordinary mind, no ordinary attainments, and of no
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ordinary piety In the Fall of '54, at the age of 31, and in the full tri- umph of a living faith, he went up from the church militant to the church triumphant, after a ministry of something better than ten years. " Thus fell a man who gave promise of standing as a Theologian, a preacher, and a man of piety among the first Doctors of the land." Minutes of 1854, p. 16.
The Rev. A. Milner, a native of South Carolina, removed with his father's family to Cass County, Georgia. He became in early life a fol- lower of Christ. He was a graduate of Franklin College, and having studied law he practiced at the bar for a short time, but soon turned his attention to the gospel ministry. He was licensed by Etawa Presbytery, soon after united with that of Cherokee by which he was ordained as Evangelist, in 1844. He had received a call from the united churches of Friendship and Euharlee, and was installed as their pastor in October, and was to supply the church at Cassville. Though in feeble health he was carried to the church at Cartersville, where the services were per- formed, returned to his sick bed which in two weeks was to him the bed of deatlı. He died November 13, 1855, and was buried on the 14th, the same day on which the Synod was assembled. During the eleven years of his ministerial life he had done much to build up the church of Christ in the region in which he labored. Minutes of the Synod of Georgia, 1855, p. 1S.
The memory of Rev. Joseph B. Stevens, a native of Connecticut, a graduate of Bowdoin College, and a student in the Theological Semi- nary in Maine, who labored in various counties in Georgia, and died on the 9th of May, 1860, in the 59th year of his age, is perpetuated in the minutes of that year.
The memorial of Rev. Alonzo Church, D. D., a native of Vermont, and graduate of Midlebury College, was first a teacher in Eatonton Acade- my, then Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Franklin Col- lege, then successor of Dr. Waddel as President of the same. It was his delight and glory to preach the gospel to the poor, nor did he cease to do this to the day of his decease. Minutes of the Synod of Georgia for 1862, p. 14.
Rev. Rufus Kilpatrick Porter, born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, second son of Rev. Francis H. Porter, a graduate of South Caro- lina College, a student of Theology at Columbia, licensed by the Pres- bytery of Charleston in 1852. chaplain in the army, was with General T. R. R. Cobb when he received his mortal wound, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, from 1867 to the 13th of July, 1869, when he received another call to the church triumphant Minutes of 1870, p. 6.
Dr. Wm. M. Cunningham, born in East Tennessee, graduated at Washington College, in his native State, studied at Princeton under Drs. Alexander and Miller. Pastor at Lexington, Va., six years, then at Chattanooga, then from January, 1841, at LaGrange. One year he labored with Dr. Styles as Synodical Evangelist, was elected as Presi- dent of Oglethorpe College, and would have accepted, had he not re- ceived the message just then, "Come thou blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for thee " Minutes of 1870, p 9.
Rev. Telemachus F. Montgomery, born in Jackson Co., Ga., united in 1827, under the preaching of Rev. Joseph C. Stiles, D. D., with the Presbyterian Church at Lawrenceville. Graduated at Athens in the class of Alexander H Stephens and others known to fame, pursued his studies at Columbia in the class of 1835, was licensed and ordained in
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the same year. Preached and taught at Ephesus, Talbot County, Ga., for seven years, and in various places in Georgia, South Carolina, Ala- bama and Florida. In March, 1874, he was struck with paralysis, from which he partially recovered, but it returned again, and on the 4th of December, 1875, he was called to his reward, having nearly completed his sixty-eighth year. His ministry was by no means an unprofitable one. His end was calm, peaceful and happy. Minutes of 1876, p. 10.
Of the Rev. Nathan Hoyt, D. D., and his labors at Beech Island, we have made mention, p. 339. He was a native of New Hampshire, his parents Baptists. He became pious in early life, and his own researches led him to embrace Pedo Baptist views. He was first settled in Troy, failing health brought him to the South, and the first place on which he bestowed his labors was Beech Island, where his efforts were much blest in the organization of the church of which he wrote an interest- ing account ; see p. 339. Thence he removed to Washington, Georgia, and thence to Athens, where under the very caves of the University he preached the gospel with great success for thirty-seven years.
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