A SKETCH OF Charles T. Walker, D. D. PASTOR OF TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, AUGUSTA, GA. BY Silas Xavier Floyd, A. B., EDITOR OF THE WEEKLY SENTINEL. [Illustration] AUGUSTA, GA., Sentinel Publishing Co., 1892. Charles Thomas Walker was born on the 11th day of January, 1858, at Hephzibah, Ga. Hephzibah is in Richmond county about 14 miles south-west of Augusta. He is the youngest of 11 children of whom 6 are dead and 5 are living. His father, Thomas Walker, was buried the day before he was born. His mother, Mrs. Hannah Walker, died in 1866, little Charley being, at the time, only 8 years old. Thus, even before Charles was born, his mother was draped in the weeds of widowhood, and he first opened his eyes on the light of this world as a fatherless child. Thus, also, in early childhood, even before he had any realizing sense of his true condition, he was compelled by the stern, but beneficent discipline of an Alwise Providence to wail forth the cry of complete orphanage. On Wednesday before the first Sunday in June, 1873, while young Walker was hoeing cotton, he decided to seek the Lord. He left the field that day and went into the woods, and remained in the woods from Wednesday afternoon without eating, drinking or seeing anyone, until the following Saturday afternoon when he was converted. He was baptised on the first Sunday in July by his uncle, the Rev. Nathan Walker, then pastor of the Franklin Covenant Church, a faithful servant of the Master, who still lives, shedding light and love among the people.