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in his discourse and said, "Just see what the devil is 

 doing here — these dear people want to hear the word 

 of the Lord, and do you think the devil is n't getting 

 them to sleep already! " and then he resumed his dis- 

 course, and proceeded as if nothing had happened. 

 He was a great lover of strong coffee, and this pro- 

 clivity of his was well understood where he had often 

 lodged, and the good sisters directed their coffee ar- 

 rangements with reference to it. But once on a time 

 he was traveling with a junior brother, who knew that 

 at the house where they were to breakfast the good 

 lady was rather economical in the use of the precious 

 berry; so he rode on ahead and informed the hostess 

 that Brother Asbury would relish a cup of coffee of 

 much more than the ordinary strength. At length 

 breakfast was announced, and the junior brother ap- 

 proached the table, congratulating himself that he too 

 should get a good dish of strong coffee, and on the old 

 gentleman's credit; but what was his disappointment 

 and mortification when he espied two coffee-pots on 

 the table, from one of which Brother Asbury Avas 

 served with good, strong coffee, while the junior had 

 to take his portion from the family coffee-pot! This 

 joke on his young traveling companion the old man 

 used to tell with great zest — and no one had a keener 

 relish for a good joke than he, while yet he had an 

 eminently spiritual mind; and no one who knew him 

 could doubt for a moment that his conversation and 

 his treasure were in heaven. 



Jesse Bichardson , who was the colleague of Mr/ 

 Asbury on the Lincoln Circuit in 1790, entered the 

 traveling connection in 1788, and was appointed to the 

 Greenbrier Circuit, in Virginia; 1789, New River; 

 1791, Yadkin; 1792, Cherokee; 1793, Georgetown; after 



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