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if I can only avoid such tormentors.' His character- 

 istic self -distrust and humility prompted him to avoid, 

 as far as possible, every occasion of notoriety. He 

 would never allow his name to be used in a newspa- 

 per, if he could prevent it, and no consideration could 

 induce him to sit for his portrait, though requested, I 

 think, several times by the Conference to do so. 



" Bishop George had never the advantage of a lib- 

 eral education; but his fine intellectual, moral, and 

 religious qualities gave him great influence in his de- 

 nomination, and have caused his memory to be most 

 respectfully and gratefully embalmed." 



" Bishop George has gone to heaven," wrote Wilbui 

 Fiske in a lady's album in 1828. " He left this world 

 for glory on the 23d of August last; and from the 

 known tendency of his soul heavenward, and his joy- 

 ous haste to be gone, there can be little doubt that his 

 chariot of fire reached the place of its destination 

 speedily, and the triumphant saint has long ere this 

 taken his seat with the heavenly company. And since 

 he is gone, the owner of this, to whom I am a stranger, 

 will pardon me if, upon her pages, I register my affec- 

 tionate remembrance of a man whom 1 both loved and 

 admired, and at the report of whose death my heart 

 has been made sick. I loved him, for he was a man 

 of God, devoted to the Church with all his soul and 

 strength. I loved him, for his was an affectionate 

 heart, and he was my friend. But the servant of God, 

 the servant of the Church, and my friend, is dead. 

 I admired him, not for his learning, for he was not a 

 learned man, but nature had done much for him. She 

 had fashioned his soul after an enlarged model, and 

 had given it an original cast and an independent bear- 

 ing; into the heart she had instilled the sweetening 



