Excerpt from Journal of the Proceedings of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South-Carolina: Held in St. Philip's Church, Charleston, on the 11th and 12th February, 1863 Permit me once more to commend to your liberality and kind consideration our Theological seminary; and to renew the exp1ess1on of my deep conviction of its necessity and value. At present all our Students me in the military service 'of their country, and the Professors necessarily unoccupied in their proper departments. But all are 1eady with in, creased zeal and interest to 1etu1°n to their spiritual duties when the good Providence of God shall restore our rights. Then we look fora ard with assured confidence to extended and permanent usefulness. We trust to be enabled to carry on the great and glorious work of preparing a Southern Ministry for the Southern country; I know, Brethren, that this is acause near to your hearts; and I beseeclr you to sustain our efforts, to cheer us 11ith your sympathies and unite with us in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.