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thing like mannerism, but there was a great harmony between his 

 gesticulation and the expression of his countenance. He seemed, 

 in some of his finest moods of thought, to look his words into his audi- 

 ence. He was one of nature's orators, who never spoiled his speak- 

 ing by scholastic restraints, fie wisely cultivated his mind and 

 taste that he might rightly conceive and speak; but he left all ex- 

 ternal oratory to find its inspiration in his subject, and to warm itself 

 into life in the glow of his mind. Hence, in many of his masterly 

 efforts, his words rushed upon his audience like an avalanche, and 

 multitudes seemed to be carried before him like the yielding cap- 

 tives of a stormed castle. 



Mr. Mastin and Mr. Hull labored each but one year 

 in South Carolina, and when they left the Pedee Cir- 

 cuit went, the former to pioneer Methodism over the 

 Alleghanies into Holston, and the latter into Georgia, 

 where he used to be known under the coarse but 

 graphic appellation of the "Broad-ax," an honorary 

 distinction conferred on him because of the mighty 

 power that attended his ministry. With the exception 

 of the year 1792, when he went to assist Jesse Lee in 

 New England, and traveled the Hartford Circuit in 

 Connecticut, Mr. Hull gave the whole of his ministe- 

 rial life to Georgia. He located in 1795, established 

 an academy in Wilkes county, removed to Athens in 

 1802, was always a great friend of the Georgia Uni- 

 versity, and at one time its acting president, and died 

 October 4, 1818. The number of members in the 

 Pedee Circuit was this year increased to seven hun- 

 dred and ninety whites and thirty-three colored. 



The appointments for Santee Circuit in 1786 were 

 Beverly Allen, elder, and Richard Swift. Mr. Swift 

 commenced his itinerant career in 1783, with William 

 Watters, the first American Methodist preacher, on 

 the Calvert Circuit, in Maryland. The following 

 year he traveled the Caswell Circuit, in North Caro- 



