EV. STERLING W. FOWLER entered the ministry in the early days of the Christian Church. In 1828, he attended the General Meeting at Union, in Orange (now Alamance) county, North Carolina, and was assigned to the "Haw River circuit."

      He was present at the General Meeting or Conference, held at New Providence, in Orange (Alamance) county, North Carolina, in 1830. He was appointed by this Conference a traveling preacher on the Staunton River circuit, in Virginia, for the ensuing year, In 1834, at the General Meeting at New Providence he was in attendance, and at O'Kelly's chapel in 1836. In 1888, he attended the General Meeting at Pope's chapel in Granville county. In 1840, at the North Carolina and Virginia Christian Conference, at Union meeting house in Orange (Alamance) county, Elder S. W. Fowler moved that "Elder Lewis Craven hold a correspondence with Elder John Walker of the State of Missouri, and [131] inform him of the state of the connection in North Carolina and Virginia."

      At the Conference at Pleasant Grove, in Randolph county, in 1843, he was reported as having seceded from the connection, and Conference authorized a deputy to demand the delivery of all "papers derived by him from this Conference." As the dates show, he was a minister in the North Carolina and Virginia Conference more than fourteen years.

[LCM 131-132]