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the memory of successive generations of young preach- 

 ers those great principles of character and usefulness 

 which have rendered the names of both immortal in 

 the annals of Methodism. 



Nicholas Watters was born in Maryland on the 20th 

 of November, 1739. He descended from an ancient 

 and resj)ectable family, and was one of seven brothers 

 who were among the first to open their hearts and 

 houses to receive the Methodist preachers when they 

 came into Harford county. His youngest brother, Will- 

 iam "Watters, was the first American preacher who en- 

 tered the traveling connection. Nicholas Watters was 

 received on probation in 1776, and besides the labors 

 bestowed on Maryland and Virginia, he traveled the 

 Union, Saluda, and Broad River circuits, in the South 

 Carolina Conference, and was stationed in Charleston 

 in 1804, where he died of the yellow fever on the 10th 

 of August, in the sixty-fith year of his age. He was a 

 man of courage, and ready in conversation upon the 

 things of God. His life was uniform, his temper 

 gracious, his manners simple and good, and his dying- 

 words will ever cheer the hearts of his brethren: "I 

 am not afraid to die, if it be the will of God ; I desire 

 to depart, and to be with Christ. The Church will sus- 

 tain no loss by my death, for the Lord will supply 'my 

 place with a man that will be more useful. Thanks be 

 to God, through his grace I have continued to live and 

 to labor faithfully to the end. 



Farewell, vain world, I'm going home; 

 My Jesus smiles and bids me come." 



Tobias Gibson was born in Liberty county, in South 



Carolina, on the Great Peclee Eiver, November 10, 



1771. He was admitted on trial in 1792, and after 



seven years of laborious service in the South Carolina 



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