instructed and challenged countless Christians’ lives
For what makes the Common Era' so common'
out of a need to help his congregation or individual hearers
and obtain the same everlasting reward
’ Howel Harris wrote of him
Our Southern Zion: Old Columbia Seminary (1928-1927) Thomas Manton instructed and challenged countless Christians’A few blocks from the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, South Carolina, is a fine antebellum mansion, the Robert Mills Historic House, named for the man who designed it. The house, beautifully restored, with Regency furnishings, marble mantelpieces, and sterling silver doorknobs and locksets, reflects the wealth and culture of Ainsley Halt, the man who briefly owned it. More fitting, however, would be desks and tables and books of the professors