The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-05-31

SOUTH CAROLINA CoNFERENoE.-We
take the following sketches ofttfe dele.
81 Yes from tthelSouth Carolina Confer
ehbe q tue. General OonferencsSoi the
MI E.sChuroh. South, recently held at
Huntsville. KY. from the Courier.
Journal, Of that city: q:
Rev. Albert III. Shipp, D. D., Is 4
native OF Lincoln County, N. C., aud
has now reached the fifty fourth year
of his age. He was converted while q
student OF the University Of North
Carolina, and maintained his faith and
practice through an ordeal incident to
college life, which at once commanded
the respect Of and gave hin much il.
duenoe with his fellow w-students. Ora.
duating at the head OF his class, he ut
once connected himself with the South
Carolina Conference, (in lS4I,) and
before the close of his second year as n
travelling preacher. exhibited that high
order OF talent, earnest devotion, burn
ing zeal and glowing pulpit eloqaence.
which soon after marked him as amoug
the most prominent and promising
young preachers of his day. After
seven years OF most successful pasto-
rate service. he was called to the presi-
dency Of Greensboro IN. O. Fomale
College. His eminent fitness and
ability as an instructor OF youth, ae
we'll as his fine administrative quail.
ties, were here soon developed, and
after efficient service in the professor
ship OF his alma matcr. was called to
tho presidency of Wofford Collsge, ut
Spartanburg, 8. c., which honored po-
sition he has held with eminent useful
ness and success for the past fifteen
years. Under his administration,
through many difficulties of financial
loss incident to and resulting from tue
war, Wofford has grown in popular
favor and reputation, and now stands
abreast among the leading educational
institutions of the country. DR.. Shipp
has now received u call to the profess
sorship OF Vanderbilt University, and
will leave South Carolina with the pro
found regret of tue Methodists of that
State, besides numerous other friends,
who will ever cherish the warmest re-
collections of him,
Rev. F. Milton Kennedy, D. D., is
n native Of South Carolina, and was
born ut Columbia, Jannary IS, 1884
In boyhood. while those ohancteris-.
tics of geniality and high social spirit
which, now chastened and accom-
plished, constitute most attractive
feature Of his msnhood's prime, were
paramount In the exuberance Of youth,
yet there was then visible the results
of devoted parental training, and the
germ Of o fundamental growth Of
evangelical principle and character
TINT seemed to mark him AS worthy
successor. az minister of tim Gospel,
of his loved and houured father, de-
ceased. Graduating unapotted and
with distinction at the Conference In.
stitution at Ookesbury, s. c., he con-
nected himself with the itinerant work
in 1854. and has ever since been one
OF the most acceptable and promising
members of the South Carolina Con-
ference. During the late war-from
1862 to its close-he served as chap
lain in General Lees army, and the
testimony of many sick and wounded
soldiers OF that heroic band, could it
now be adduced, would speak Of his
unfaltering devotion amid the periis
aud sacrifices of the camp and field.
AS pastor and preacher, he has won
upon the hearts of the people to an
unusnal extent: as presiding elder, his
administrations were snccessful, and
as editor OF the Southern Christian Ad.
Oocate. which position lie now holds,
his abilities and usefulness have been
yet more conspicuonsly seen and felt.
Imb Led with. The lively zeal of the
pure spirit Of Methodism, his fresh
and ornate style as b. writer has added
much to the popularity OF the Adoo.
cab. aud greatly increased its ciroula-
ton. ~. ,s.iSst,r,;, -.
Rev. q. a. Walkss4 4,vas born in
County Apsrim; ireland, August 3,
1909. and epigtated IN his fathers
family. arriving at Charleston, South
Carolina. November, 1920. and settling
in Chester District IN December fol-
lowing, and afterward in Fairfield He
joined the Methodist Church near
Winnsboro, in September, 1928. Was
licensed to exhort soon afterward; TO
preach in July, 1880, and assigned to
work by Rev. w. NJ. Kennedy, presd-
ing elder Of the Columbia District, in
September following. Received on
trial into the South Carolina Confer
encs February, 1881. aud into full oor-
nection February, 1884. Since then,
except three years. closing September,
1863. when he lubored in Kentucky,
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