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position of her own opinions, and therefore without 

 hesitation offered her hand for membership in the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church. By close inquiry she 

 soon came to discover that she had been resting 

 on false hopes, and that for a long space of time be- 

 fore she had remained calm in the midst of danger. 

 A knowledge of her true condition gave fresh vigor 

 to her exertions. Under the guidance of these holy 

 men of God, who drew their instructions from a clear 

 personal experience of religion, she soon attained to 

 a sound conversion, when her close walk with God in 

 the use of all the means of grace, and her deportment 

 toward her friends and acquaintances constrained 

 them to acknowledge the reality of the religion of 

 Jesus. She became intensely interested in the relig- 

 ious welfare of her family. She used great importu- 

 nity in her private devotions, and often lifted up her 

 voice to God in behalf of her husband and children. 

 For about fifteen years she traveled alone the way to 

 Zion. Although brought up in the nurture and ad- 

 monition of the Lord, her children had hitherto re- 

 sisted the drawings of the Good Spirit; her compan- 

 ion too had striven against divine impressions. But 

 under the preaching of George Dougherty, who came 

 to the Saluda District as presiding elder, in 1802, and 

 of Lewis Myers, who was in charge of the Broad 

 Kiver Circuit the same year, she had the happiness of 

 seeing her husband and most of her children converted 

 to God, and members of the Church. She besought 

 the Lord earnestly and especially, if consistent with 

 his divine will, to thrust out one of her children at 

 least as a laborer in his vineyard. In 1804 the Lord 

 answered this prayer also, and she had the pleasure 

 of sitting under the ministry of one of her sons for 



