The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . to conduct religious meet-ings and teach in the Sunday-school, and finally he decided toenter the gospel ministry, and in1849 was licensed to preach bythe Mt. Herman Baptist church
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . to conduct religious meet-ings and teach in the Sunday-school, and finally he decided toenter the gospel ministry, and in1849 was licensed to preach bythe Mt. Herman Baptist church,Virginia. He next spent fifteen months in diligentstudy in an academy at the Botetourt Springs, Roan-oke county, Va., preparing to enter college. Afterteaching school, and preaching the following year,he entered the Columbian university, Washington,D. C, in 1853. In 1856, while a student in the uni-versity, he organized a Sunday-school in South Wash-ington, out of which, the following year, grew theFifth Baptist church, of which he has been for thirty-five years the pastor. Besides having administeredto his own church with steadfast devotion for thirty-five years. Dr. Meador has, during that long period,taken an active and influential part in the religiousaffairs of the national capital outside of his own con-gregation. He bas been the spiritual adviser to alarge number of persons outside of the fold of the. church, and generously and with Christian benevo-lence acted jfis counsel in secular affairs, performedreligious rites and deeds of charity for thousands ofthe poor and needy of Washington city and the re-gions round about, whose confidence and esteem hehas always enjoyed to a degree far beyond whatmight ordinarily be expected. For the last twelveyears he has served as editor and proprietor of theBaptist Beacon, a useful denominational paper ingeneral circulation among the Baptist churches ofWashington city, which has been an important agentfor good both within and withou
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