CHAPTER X. 



My talents, gifts, and graces, Lord, 



Into thy blessed hands receive, 

 And let me live to preach thy word, 



And let me to thy glory live ; 

 My every sacred moment spend 

 In publishing the sinner's Friend. 



(Charles Wesley.) 



rriHE following appointments were made for the 

 1 year 1794, viz.: Philip Bruce, elder; Great Pe- 

 dee, Enoch George, Josias Handle; Little Pedee, 

 Joseph Moore; Santee, James Jenkins; Union, Tobias 

 Gibson one quarter, William McKendree, Nicholas 

 Watters; Catawba, William Fulwood; Charleston, 

 Joshua Cannon, Isaac Smith; Bush River, Samuel 

 Kisher; Broad River, John Clark, Coleman Carlisle; 

 Saluda, Abner Henley; Cherokee, James Tolleson; 

 Washington, John Russell, Richard Posey; Richmond, 

 George Clark, John King; Burke, Benjamin Tarrant, 

 James Douthet; Black Swamp, Jonathan Jackson. 



The name of Philip Bruce will ever hold a bright 

 place in the annals of Methodism. He was born 

 in North Carolina, near King's Mountain, December 

 25, 1755. His grandfather was a French Protestant, 

 and fled to this country with the persecuted Hugue- 

 nots. The family-name was originally De Bruise, 

 but was corrupted into Bruce by a Scotch teach- 

 er, from whom Philip received his education. He 

 was the first of the family that became a Methodist. 



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