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of a young man from each district for the ministry, and earnestly 

 recommend prompt measures in raising the amount- necessary to 

 meet their board bills — their tuition fees being remitted by the 

 Faculty." 



The members of the South Carolina Conference of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with the 

 large-hearted laymen, whose fidelity and zeal in the 

 cause of Christian education have been attested, con- 

 stitute the only remaining pillars on which the college 

 must in future lean for support; but these, it is be- 

 lieved, will prove, under God, all-sufficient to sustain 

 the growing fabric of its usefulness. 



