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odists did not feel the obligation to hold their peace 

 and disguise their joyous emotions; and the widow 

 Morris indulged i: . a shout on the occasion that would 

 have done credit to one of George Shadford's revival- 

 meetings on the Old Brunswick Circuit, in Virginia. 

 The congregation were panic-stricken; the old German 

 ladies pressed their way to Nancy L. Morris, the wid- 

 ow's daughter, and exclaimed in the utmost fright, 

 "Your mother has a fit, indeed she has; and she is 

 going to die." The daughter, not at all alarmed, 

 answered with surprising calmness, " My mother is 

 quite subject to such fits; she will soon recover from 

 them." 



This Nancy^K Morris subsequently became the wife V 

 of Daniel Asbury, who was sent with Enoch George 

 (afterward made bishop) in 1789, and with Jesse Rich- 

 ardson in 1790, to form the Lincoln Circuit. This 

 circuit was made to embrace not only Lincoln, but 

 also Rutherford and Burke, with portions of Mecklen- 

 burg and Cabarrus counties in North Carolina, and 

 York District in South Carolina, and that part of 

 Spartanburg and Union Districts which lies north of 

 the Pacolet River. It took the name of Union Circuit 

 in 1793, which was retained until 1805, when it was 

 again called Lincoln; and the circuit of that name, 

 though with constantly changing limits, remains to 

 the present day. The young George was at first ap- 

 palled by this laborious and in some of its parts even 

 dangerous field, and made request of Bishop Asbury 

 to be changed from it; but the wise Bishop reminded 

 him, in great kindness and love, that it was good for 

 him to bear the yoke in his youth, and he patiently 

 endured to the end. Mr. Asbury had already become 

 a veteran in frontier service, and came well fitted to 



