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might rely on your support, the Conference has resolved on the 

 establishment of a school at Cokesbury (lately called Mount Ariel), 

 to be conducted, as soon as practicable, on the plan of associating 

 manual labor with scholastic studies. The Board of Trustees have 

 contracted for the building of suitable houses, both for lodging and 

 tuition, which we hope will be fit for occupancy in January next; 

 and meanwhile a school of the usual kind, and deserving your re- 

 gard, is in operation there. 



At the unanimous request of the Conference, the bishop has ap- 

 pointed an agent (our esteemed brother Eev. Samuel W. Capers) to 

 travel at large among you, to represent our views and serve our 

 wishes in this matter. To him Ave refer you for further informa- 

 tion ; and we bespeak for him your prompt and liberal support of 

 the cause in which he is employed. 



The Cokesbury School still continues in successful 

 oTjeration, and has always maintained a high reputa- 

 tion for scholarship. It received an endowment of 

 fifteen thousand dollars, the munificent gift of George 

 Holloway, the proceeds of which were annually ap- 

 propriated to the education of the sons of the de- 

 ceased, superannuated, and effective ministers of the 

 South Carolina Conference. It is worthy of honor- 

 able mention that about fifty effective ministers of 

 the Conference have received their literary education 

 in this institution. Few high-schools have as many 

 strong claims on the public favor. Its location in a 

 beautiful and healthy village, its freedom from sur- 

 rounding temptations to vice, its readiness of access, 

 its numerous and widely scattered alumni, and the 

 long period of its existence, dignified and rendered 

 venerable by many noble memories, are favoring cir- 

 cumstances of a high order that very rarely concur 

 for the prosperity of a single school. 



Wofford College was named for the Eev. Benjamin 

 Wofford, who gave by will one hundred thousand dol- 

 lars " for the purpose of establishing and endowing a 



