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year 1834; converted in early life; admitted on trial in the Confer- 

 ence in November, 1854, and appointed for 1855 to Walterboro Cir- 

 cuit; 1856-57, Greenville Station; 1858, Wadesboro ; 1869-60, Spring 

 Street, Charleston; 1861-62, Charlotte; 1863-64, chaplain in the 

 army (28th North Carolina Regiment) ; 1865, post chaplain at Char- 

 lotte ; 1866-69, presiding elder of Wadesboro District ; 1870, super- 

 numerary at Wadesboro; 1871, presiding elder of Bamberg Dis- 

 trict; from 1872 till death, editor of Southern Christian Advocate. As 

 a preacher and pastor, both in cities and in the country, as army 

 chaplain during the war, as secretary of the Conference, as presid- 

 ing elder, and as editor of the Southern Christian Advocate, he served 

 the Church with conspicuous ability. His career in the ministry 

 was a steady progress in mental and spiritual culture, in pulpit pow- 

 er, in practical sagacity, administrative tact, broad catholicity, and an 

 intelligent and ardent devotion to the principles and aims of his 

 denomination. He did not probably fulfill the mission of the great 

 man, but, better than that, he fulfilled the great mission of man — he 

 followed Christ, and became a partaker of the divine nature. 1 1 is 

 death, like that of his father, was sudden. He fell on sleep Febr u- 

 ary 5, 1880. 



Kirkland, William C. was born in Barnwell District, South 

 Carolina, January 6, 1814 ; converted in November, 1832 ; licensed 

 to preach in January, 1835; admitted on trial in the Conference in 

 January, 1837, and appointed to Winnsboro Circuit; 1838-39, mis- 

 sionary to Beaufort and neighboring islands; 1840, Cheraw; 1841-42, 

 Camden; 1843, Cumberland Church, Charleston; 1844, Bethel 

 Church, Charleston ; 1845-46, missionary to Beaufort and Pocotaligo ; 

 1847-48, Barnwell Circuit; 1849-50, Cypress; 1851-57, Pon Pon 

 Mission; 1858-59, 'Spartanburg Station; 1860-61, supernumerary 

 on Spartanburg Station; 1862-63, supernumerary on Spartanburg 

 Circuit ; 1864, Greenville Circuit. He died in perfect peace at the 

 house of Dr. William H. Austin, in Greenville District, on the 

 29th of March, and his remains were interred in the cemetery 

 at Spartanburg. He was an exceedingly amiable, sweet-spirited 

 man; a Christian resembling, in the graces of his character, the 

 innocent one to whom the Saviour pointed his disciples, and a 

 model Methodist preacher. In his tongue was the law of kindness, 

 and in his heart a fountain of love. His preaching had the charm 

 of simplicity, and was directed with evident singleness of purpose 

 to the conscience of the hearer. Faithfully and lovingly, often 

 with flowing tears and with a voice quivering with emotion, he 



