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brethren, resist the devil and he will flee from you, 

 just like the dancing-master." He no more made his 

 appearance in the neighborhood. Mr. Humphreys 

 lived to a good old age, loved and esteemed by all who 

 knew him, retaining his ministerial character unblem- 

 ished to the last, and receiving the crown of life. 



Mark Moore entered the traveling connection in 

 1786, and was appointed to Holston; in 1787 to Salis- 

 bury, in 1789 to Santee, in 1798 to Broad Kiver, in 

 1799 located. In 1819 he was stationed in New Or- 

 leans. He possessed every requisite qualification to 

 render him an eloquent and effective preacher of the 

 gospel, and if he had continued in the regular itiner- 

 ant work he would have become truly a polished shaft 

 in Jehovah's quiver. He was a fine scholar and good 

 educator, but unfortunate in the management of his 

 temporal affairs. He lived to be quite aged, and to 

 the last was the faithful and holy man of God. 



Hardy Herbert, who was admitted on trial this year, 

 was a native of North Carolina, but brought up in 

 South Carolina on the banks of Broad Biver. He pro- 

 fessed faith in Christ at sixteen years of age, began to 

 travel when he was about eighteen, and labored in the 

 work of God about six years, during which time he 

 traveled the Great Pedee Circuit with Aquila Sugg in 

 1789; Georgetown with Thomas Humphreys in 1790; 

 with John Andrew — father of Bishop Andrew — Wash- 

 ington, in Georgia, in 1791; after which Bishop As- 

 bury took him to the north side of Virginia . He was 

 a youth of genius, of an easy and natural elocution, 

 and pleasing as a speaker. He was obedient to those 

 who had the rule over him, and was loved and es- 

 teemed by the Bishop and all his brethren. " Take 

 care of dear Brother 'Herbert," wrote Hope Hull to 



