Excerpt from Saint Paul's Chestnut Hill, Salisbury, North Carolina: An Historical Sketch Father Murdoch came to St. Luke's as a young and spirited missionary, prepared to improve the congregation which had little money and was only slowly beginning to recover from the difficult Reconstruction Period. He surely brought new life and progress to St. Luke's. During the first five years of his ministry the congregation more than doubled. He possessed all the necessary qualities to be a zealous missionary. He was a brilliant scholar and had great interest in the classics as well as mathematics and architecture. In recognition of his schol arly abilities he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the University of The South at Sewanee, Tennessee in 1890. He was a very capable theologian and was devoted to the historic Christian duty of expanding the Church and spreading the Gospel. 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.