REV. AUGUSTUS SHEPARD 35 



Some one has said in substance, ^'To be young 

 while one lives, is to live in the hearts and lives 

 of the young." If this is true, and we believe it, 

 Dr. Shepard was but a youth when called to 

 his reward. For peculiarly it may be said of 

 him, that his crowning years, as well as at the 

 beginning, and all through his life, much time 

 was spent with the youth. It is that debt of 

 gratitude which has led to the writing of his 

 biography. The good one does when he places 

 in the hands of another the Bible or other Gos- 

 pel literature, can never be estimated. Thou- 

 sands and hundreds of thousands of Bibles and 

 Gospel tracts were distributed by Dr. Shepard, 

 and through his direction throughout ^orth 

 Carolina. Hundreds of our ministers who had 

 scarcely no helps, were supplied with libraries, 

 which proved of inestimable value in preparing 

 them for their work. ^N'ot then as now, did they 

 have theological seminaries and access to libra- 

 ries; but many of them were wholly dependent 

 upon these helps afforded, through Dr. Shepard, 

 by the American Baptist Publication Society. 



For eighteen years he served as the Society's 

 missionary. Everywhere throughout the State 

 protests were heard against his leaving the work. 



