Lott Gary's self-denying, self-sacrificing labors,
as a self-taught Physician, as a Missionary and
Pastor of a Church, and finally as
Governor of the Colony,
have inscribed his name indelibly on the page of history,
not only as one of Nature's Noblemen, but as an eminent
Philanthropist and Missionary of Jesus Christ.
'Aye, call it holy ground,
The place where first they trod;
They sought what here they found,
Freedom to worship God.'"
That is, indeed, a remarkable utterance, coming from the Southern
Baptist Missionary Convention, in the year 1851.