CHAPTER XII. 



I have well considered my journal ; it is inelegant, yet it conveys 

 much information of the state of religion and country. I make no 

 doubt the Methodists are, and will be, a numerous and wealthy peo- 

 ple, and their preachers who follow us will not know our struggles 

 but by comparing the present improved state of the country with 

 what it was in our day, as exhibited in my journal and other 



records of that day. 



(Francis Asbury.) 



THURSDAY, December 25, 1794, from Jackson's 

 (in Anson county, North Carolina) we took the 

 grand Camden road to great Lynch's Creek, thirty 

 miles, and came to Evan's. Friday, 26th, made forty 

 miles to Pnblius James Eembert's. James Rogers and 

 Sanmel Cowls were my faithful attendants. The land 

 we. came through yesterday is poor and but thinly set- 

 tled — a plantation once in three or four miles. The 

 long-leaved pines have a grand appearance. Sunday, 

 28th, rode, after preaching, to Brother Bradford's; 

 .Monday, 29th, to Bowman's. Tuesday, 30th, we had 

 to wrestle with Santee Swamp for three hours, but 

 through mercy got over safe at last, and came, in the 

 evening, to the house of a very kind Frenchman. 

 "Wednesday, 31st, with the main body of the preachers 

 came into the city of Charleston. 



Thursday, January 1, 1795. Being New-year's-day, 



I was called upon to preach, which I did on Psalm xc. 



12. We entered on the business of our Conference, 



and continued until Wednesday, 7th. We had preach- 



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