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Methodists. " I reflect," says he, "upon the present 

 ruin of the Orphan House, and taking a view of the 

 money expended, the persons employed, the preachers 

 sent over, I was led to inquire, Where are they? and 

 how has it sped? The earth, the army, the Baptists, 

 the (Episcopal) Church, the Independents, have swal- 

 lowed them all up at this windmill end of the continent. 

 A wretched country this — but there are souls, precious 

 souls, worth worlds." 



Crossing the river, and preaching at Black Swamp 

 and Purysburg, he returned by Saltketcher Bridge 

 and Parker's Ferry to Charleston, whence after spend- 

 ing from the 8th to the 21st of February in ministerial 

 and pastoral labors, he passed up the Santee, Congaree, 

 and Broad rivers, to hold a quarterly-meeting across 

 the Pacolet in Union Circuit. " There were no elders 

 present," he writes. " I preached on Ephesians vi. 

 10-18, and felt great dearth among the people. Sun- 

 day, 17th, we administered the sacrament and held 

 love-feast. I desired Daniel Asbury to preach, and 

 Brother Gassaway to exhort whilst I retired to write 

 to Isaac Smith, desiring him to take the presidentship 

 of Union, Catawba, Little Pedee, Great Pedee, Anson, 

 and Santee circuits." 



In due time Bishop Asbury came back by way of 

 Mr. Blakeney's on Lynch's Creek, Mr. Horton's at 

 Hanging Bock, and Mr. Cook's on Broad Biver, in 

 Fairfield, to Mr. Finch's in Newberry, to hold the 

 eighth session of the South Carolina Conference, and 

 to connect with it the Georgia Conference in its seventh 

 session, on January 1, 1794. About thirty preachers 

 from South Carolina and Georgia, including members 

 and those who had business witli the United Confer- 

 ence, attended and " were straitened for room, having 



