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John Andrew when he was in Georgia, " for my sake, 

 for Christ's sake, and for his own sake." Finding his 

 constitution weak, he wished to decline traveling at 

 large, and hoped to assist the Connection as a teacher. 

 Moved by one who had a very great influence over 

 him, he went to Norfolk in Virginia to improve himself 

 in French and other studies. There he married, and 

 soon after died, we have reason to believe, in the fear, 

 favor, and love of God — carried off by a bilious fever. 

 He changed this state of sorrow and suffering in the 

 twenty-fifth year of his age, November 20, 1794. 



William Gassaway, who entered the traveling con- 

 nection this year, had a long and distinguished career 

 in the South Carolina Conference. In his youth he 

 was wild and reckless, full of fun and frolic, and withal 

 somewhat given to those pugilistic encounters which 

 were deemed among the young men of that day strong 

 evidences of manliness. He had not the fear of God 

 before his eyes. While thus pursuing a life of sinful 

 forgetf ulness of God, he chanced one day to attend a 

 Methodist meeting, and the word of the Lord came to 

 his heart in power. God's Spirit thoroughly aroused 

 him from his guilty dream of pleasure and security. 

 When the penitents were invited forward for prayers, 

 he, with others, accepted the invitation. This, he said, 

 surprised everybody. The dancing people said, " What 

 shall we do for a fiddler? " Everybody had something 

 to say about Bill Gassaway. Many prophesied he 

 would not hold out long. But those who knew him 

 best said, "He is gone! the Methodists have got him; 

 he will never play the fiddle, or drink, or fight, any 

 more." His convictions were very deep. He felt so 

 unworthy that he refused to drink water because the 

 stream looked pure; and although the day was very 



