Excerpt from Old Fourth Creek Congregation: The Story of the First Presbyterian Church, Statesville, 1764-1989 Mr. Raynal is a son of Margaret Scott and Dr. Charles Edward Ray nal, who for thirty-five years served this church faithfully as pastor. Middy, as he is affectionately known to us, was born in Statesville and attended city schools. He studied at Davidson College, and, upon graduation, entered Union Theological Seminary, graduating there in 1950. He was ordained by Winchester Presbytery and served church es in West Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia during his forty years' ministry in the Presbyterian Church. 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.