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that on a certain occasion, when he heard that one of 

 his favorites in the "thundering legion" was a captive 

 fast bound in love's golden fetters, he exclaimed, "I 

 believe the devil and the women will get all my preach- 

 ers! " For thirty-six years Philip Bruce stood in the 

 front rank of the itinerancy. Faithful in every posi- 

 tion, and successful in every field, he might well 

 adopt the motto, "In labors more abundant." He 

 lived in the days that tried the souls of men, and from 

 every trial he came forth like gold well refined. Borne 

 down at length by labors and by the weight of years, he 

 reluctantly consented to be placed in a superannuated 

 relation, and in 1817 his name disappeared from the 

 effective list. The closing years of his life were spent 

 among his kindred in Tennessee. Calmly and peace- 

 fully he descended the vale of life, venerated and loved 

 by all the Church, a veteran soldier of the cross, 

 patiently awaiting his discharge from the militant 

 Church on earth, and his call to join the triumphant 

 host beyond the flood of death. He died on the 10th 

 of May, 1826, surrounded by his friends, at the house 

 of his brother Joel Bruce, in Giles county, Tennessee. 

 At the time of his death he was the oldest traveling 

 preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, with the 

 exception of the Eev. Freeborn Garrettson. 



Enoch George was born in Lancaster county, in 

 Virginia, in the year 1767 or 1768, but which of the 

 two he was unable to determine, because the family 

 records had been consumed by fire. He was brought 

 up chiefly among Episcopalians, and was accustomed 

 to sit under the preaching of the Eev. Devereux Jar- 

 ratt, of Bath, but was converted to God through the 

 instrumentality of Mr. Easter, and identified himself 

 with the Methodists, whom he had affected to despise. 



