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I have had a wide acquaintance during a long 

 life with a large number of prominent ministers 

 of both races, and have rarely found any one 

 more courteous, conscientious, gentle, and spirit- 

 ually minded than was the late Dr. Shepard. 

 The world is poorer and heaven is richer because 

 he has lived, rendered a splendid service, and 

 gone to his reward. 



Charles Fran^cis Meserve, 

 President of Shaw University^, 



Raleigh, N. C. 

 March 5, 1912. 



