Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-12-10
extending the failing energies of long
life in his same labor of love
REVEREND MARQUIS L WOOD

l1I0 In Ills same l4DOE OF love
REVEREND MARQUIS L WOOD.
This divine is so til oroughIy knownin
North Carolina that it is hardly neces- |
sary to make persons al sketch of him.
He is graduate of Trinity College |
and soon after entering the milistry |
offered his services for the China |
Mission. Proceeding to China, for sew
eral years he was called TO endure all
TO that enlightened heather land. CIR
cumstances viii Oh he considered prov
idential brought him back to the North
Carolina Conference, and since his re-
turn he has been engaged iii the work
of an itinerant mini ter, on circuits, sta
10 rs and as Presiding e der of tn
salisbury d. trict He is pro bsbly the
only man IN the State who speak th'
Chineee language and he is certainly
the only misslona~y sent out to China
by the North Carolina O ,nfrre ace. AZ
a preacher he ls acceptable evrry~her
and as a pastor much esteemed
We observe that he is accompanied
by hIs bride, to whom be was married
On Monday last and came TO Confer
O., ce On his bridal tour. His bride is
he niece of the venerable DIR. Afford
of he Conference.
REV. IRA. T. WYCHE.
One of the most prominent revival
ISIS in the Conference is the Rev Ira
/ Wychp. For many years he has
been noted for the number OF CONVEX
sions which follow his preaching aid
for his remarkable faculty in bu1ling
The IF ,rts Of his Iaoors are hardly
ever transient, but on the contrary
there Is a permanency in a christian
character which he assists to build tia
will be seen after he has passed to his
reward above. OF all positions in
which he has been placed she likes mos
that of circuit rider. though he has
filled the position of Presiding Elder.
| Secretary of the Conference and other
official positions, yet he comes back 10
! -he'good old itinerant and pagtoral work
"a one to which he is especially called,
| and in which he finds his greatest hap
pipess. It is told of him by his breth
rem that about six months after one of
his large reviva,s he met in one of our
villages man who mad professed reli
gien in the revival, but who was then
| living drunk. The man accosted him,
BRO Wyche don't you know me o. II
am one-of your converts, Yes,
s,.id the reverend gentleman, 81
| thought so, for krot0 the Lord could
not hare had any hand an yOter conner
sion." 1T looks like mans work F"
! Mr.. was disguised and left. Mr..
Wyche looks a. if the half century
which has rol ed over his head had
only got him ready for artuous 1aLors.
He is indeed an affectionate minister
who needeth not be ashamed
PROFESSOR ADoLPBUs W. MANGUM.
# the University of Moth Caro- ina
| AID "a gr duate of that instit utiou. does
not look as if he had been long i'll the
ministry aud vt he is preacher of
| long experience and abundant labor
! Being naturally of a poetic tempera-
10 MT, in his younger days he cultivated
the muses. to soms extent aud pub
iished book of poen which gave
satisfaction to many of his friends but
for some unexplained reason he with
drew the edition from circulation. NJ
doubt if he had not had the aIduou.
| work of an itinsrant on his bands we
should have been able to rank hun with
our other North Caroliua poets, who
have written some of the sweetest
poem in the English language. Prof
M4ngum has Fl Id many importan
stations. Goldsboro, Greensboro,
Raleigh an others. From Raleigh he
WAS called to the chair of Natural
Sciences in the University wnere he
now lubnrs, but We venture to say til It
he breaches still wherever he has an
opsning. 1t is in him and will com
out.