. History of the Augusta church, from 1737 to 1900. :Bezetha Chapel, at Burketown; Spring Hill, Roman and New Hope. Theministrations of the Gospel at these points have been blessed of the Lord inbringing into the Church a large number, who have contributed spiritual andfinancial strength to the Church. Perhaps no period of equal length in thehistory of this Church has felt more keenly the drainage upon her strengththan this one. This is due mainly to three causes: (i) Deaths and removals;(2) the wave of financial depression which swept over her, causing (3)financial embarrassment to many. Notw
. History of the Augusta church, from 1737 to 1900. :Bezetha Chapel, at Burketown; Spring Hill, Roman and New Hope. Theministrations of the Gospel at these points have been blessed of the Lord inbringing into the Church a large number, who have contributed spiritual andfinancial strength to the Church. Perhaps no period of equal length in thehistory of this Church has felt more keenly the drainage upon her strengththan this one. This is due mainly to three causes: (i) Deaths and removals;(2) the wave of financial depression which swept over her, causing (3)financial embarrassment to many. Notwithstanding all this she has bravedevery storm, and has fair prospects, under the blessing of God, of greatusefulness in the future. The Church as constituted has six elders: Dr. Wil-liam Bell, clerk of session, William H. Moorman, Peter H. See, E. , Chas. Edward Crawford and Frank R. Bell. The deacons areSamuel Byers, John A. Brown, Frank McCue. James T. Kerr and G. Craw-ford Miller. She has at this time two hundred and fourteen REV. ALEXANDER SPRUNT, D. D. CHAPTER Alexander Sprunt, D. D. THE first part of this period of twenty years this Church was ministeredto by Dr. Alexander Sprunt. Alexander Sprunt was born in Glas-gow, Scotland, July lo, 1852. His parents were Alexander and Jane DalzielSprunt, and he is the fifth child of a family of nine children, five sons andfour daughters. His father was British Vice-Consul for North the year 1854, his father moved to Wilming-ton, N. C, and continuedthere until his death, during the pastorate of the son in this Church. The earlypart of Dr. Sprunts life was therefore spent in Wilmington, where the mem-bers of his fathers family, with two exceptions, still reside. He was edu-cated in Wilmington; at Upper Canada College, in Toronto, Canada; atDavidson College, N. C, where he graduated in 1875 with the degree ofBachelor of Arts, and at Union Theological Seminary, Hampden-Sidney,Va., graduating
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