h the Gospel of Christ, he
entered Allen University, there taking a collegiate course,
at the same time serving missions near Columbia.

With a wife and one child, he found that the mission work
was inadequate for his support, having very often to cease
his studies in school and go out and teach for two or three
months to relieve the wants of his family. This was very
discouraging to him, but he courageously worked on until
Bishop Dickerson relieved him of some of his
responsibilities by giving him a room in his back yard. This
he gladly accepted that he might earn some money with which
to buy books and thus sustain himself in his struggle for an
education.

I know of my own personal knowledge that he had very often
to walk sixteen miles on Sundays and preach twice, getting
back home at 11 or 12 o'clock at night to be enabled to make
recitations on Monday. Nevertheless, he struggled on and
graduated at the head of his class in 1887.

He was ordained deacon in Bethel A. M. E. Church, Columbia,
S. C., March, 1883, by Bishop Dickerson, and ordained elder
by Bishop James A. Shorter at Greenville, S. C., in 1885. He
graduated from Allen University in 1887, in a class with six
other young men--four preachers and two lawyers. In 1887 he
was elected a delegate to the General Conference which met
in Indianapolis, Ind., and he has been elected to each
successive General Conference ever since. He served eight
years as a pastor, holding three appointments, and ten years
as a presiding elder. He was appointed to the Manning
District in 1889, and after serving there four years he was
appointed, by Bishop Salter, to the Orangeburg District, the
largest district in the State, and served there five years.
Bishop A. Grant appointed him to the Sumter District in
1898, which district he served until the General Conference
met in Columbus, Ohio, 1900, where he was elected
Corresponding Secretary and Editor of the Sunday School
periodicals of the A. M. E. Church.

Dr. Chappelle also served two years as President of Allen
University, his alma mater, being elected just ten years
after his graduation from that institution.

He has had a successful career as teacher, as preacher and,
now, as business manager and editor. He ranks, also, as on