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School missionary sent out by the great Ameri- 

 can Baptist Publication Society to work in 

 North Carolina, and he did the work of dozens 

 organizing our State Sunday School Conven- 

 tion. I have found it true that an organized 

 body retains and represents the spirit of the 

 man that founded it. This is especially true of 

 our Convention. Dr. Shepard has never known 

 any other spirit in his work than that of the 

 lowly I^azarene, and I know of few State Sun- 

 day School Conventions where there is such lit- 

 tle bombast and so much of the genuine spirit 

 of our Lord and Master as in the case of our 

 Convention, and I thank God it was started by 

 such a man. One reason why some conventions 

 and churches always are in trouble and do such 

 little is because they represent the spirit of their 

 founders. 



Dr. Shepard also organized the Oxford Or- 

 phan Asylum, which has so commended itself 

 generally that the State of Xorth Carolina is 

 now helping it with a handsome appropriation 

 yearly, and a second one of the kind has been 

 started at Winston-Salem as an outgrowth of 

 this effort. 



Dr. A. Shepard is no time server, nor does he 



