The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . 00 volumes, and will be one of the most beautifuland admirably arranged library buildings in the South. Emory has been the happy recipient of the benefactionsof George I. Seney, Esq., of New York, himself the sonof a Methodist preacher, who thus expressed his good willtoward Southern Methodism and his desire for its futurewell-being. Wofford College, at Spartansburg, S. C, has had an event-ful history. In 1850 the Rev Benjamin Wofford, a localminister, died, leaving in his will a legacy of $100,000 to theSouth Carolina Conference for the purpose
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . 00 volumes, and will be one of the most beautifuland admirably arranged library buildings in the South. Emory has been the happy recipient of the benefactionsof George I. Seney, Esq., of New York, himself the sonof a Methodist preacher, who thus expressed his good willtoward Southern Methodism and his desire for its futurewell-being. Wofford College, at Spartansburg, S. C, has had an event-ful history. In 1850 the Rev Benjamin Wofford, a localminister, died, leaving in his will a legacy of $100,000 to theSouth Carolina Conference for the purpose of establishingand endowing a college, for literary, classical, and scientificeducation, to be located in his native district, Spartans-burg. One half of the amount was to be laid aside as apermanent endowment. A charter was obtained in 1851, 1314 American Methodism suitable buildings erected, a president and professors elected,and the college opened on August i, 1854. Since that timeit has never suspended, although for a time during the civil. PHOTOGRAPH BY CALVERT BROS & TAYLOR. JOHN D. HAMMOND, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education. war it was little more than a classical school. The warswept away the endowment, but by the liberality of the peo-ple it has been able to continue its work. The last few years Systematic Bible Study 1315 have been the most successful of its history, so far as attend-ance on its classes is concerned. Millsaps College, at Jackson, Miss., is named in honor ofMajor R. W Millsaps, whose generous gifts made the ex-istence of the institution possible. It has $107,000 endow-ment and several partially endowed scholarships. Its realproperty is valued at $70,000. Webster Science Hall, cost-ing $10,000, was recently given to the college by MajorMillsaps. The Southern University, situated at Greensboro, Ala.,founded in 1856, is one of the institutions which were crip-pled by the civil war, having once possessed an equipment,buildings, lands,
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