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Monday, 14. Was almost entirely occupied in writing letters to 

 the North. 



Tuesday, 15. I had many people at the widow Bowman's. While 

 here we had a most awful storm. I was afraid the house would 

 come down. We rode in the night to Mark Moore's. I was seized 

 with illness on the way, which continued during the night. Next 

 day, however, I was able to pursue my journey. 



Friday, 18. We rode along crooked paths to Kasey's, where we 

 received the afflicting account of the death of dear Brother Major, 

 who departed this life last Saturday. He was a witness to holiness, 

 and died in peace and love. 



Saturday, 19. I preached at Wilson's with some liberty on 2 Peter 

 iii. 7. 



Sunday, 20. I spoke with little enlargement. Our friends here 

 on Tiger Kiver are much alive to God, and have built a good 

 chapel. We rode to Buffington's in the evening, on Fair Forest 

 Creek, and were kindly entertained, 



North Carolina— Tuesday, 22. Rode to Rutherford Court-house, 

 and the next day to Burke Court-house ; it being court time, we went 

 on, and reached Brother White's, on John's River, about ten o'clock 

 at night. Here I found both saddles broken, both horses foundered, 

 and both their backs sore ; so we stopped a few days. 



Thus in this second visit made by Bishop Asbury to 

 the South Carolina Conference, as in others, he held 

 quarterly-meetings and filled appointments for preach- 

 ing in every circuit, at the expense of great toil and 

 suffering. The entire work in South Carolina was 

 embraced in one district, and twelve preachers received 

 their appointments from this second Conference. 



Says Mr. Allen, in letters to Mr, Wesley; 



At the Conference in Charleston, 1788, I was appointed to travel 

 at large through the State of South ( arolina, which I did, and visited 

 North Carolina and Georgia. Indeed, my famil y had very little of 

 my company, but poor souls reaped the benefit. I think we had 

 more powerful visitations than had been under my ministry for 

 three years before. At one quarterly-meeting held in Santee, I 

 think fifteen or twenty professed to obtain mercy, and almost every 

 hearer was dissolved in tears. Many fell on their knees and en- 



