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the law, attending particularly to our Lord's comment 

 on each precept. In the afternoon enlarged on Jer 

 xxxi. 33. 



Thursday, 5. Deeply dejected ; the white and world- 

 ly people are intolerably ignorant of God; playing, 

 dancing, swearing, racing — these are their common 

 practices and pursuit^. Our few male members do 

 not attend preaching, and I fear there is hardly one 

 who walks with God. The women and Africans attend 

 our meetings, and some few strangers also. There is 

 some similarity between my stay here and at Bath, in 

 Virginia. O how I should prize a quiet retreat in 

 the woods! 



Sunday, 8. Preached on Psalm viii. 4; Brother 

 Bruce on 1 Cor. ii. 5. I met the society, read the 

 rules of discipline, and gave a close talk about con- 

 formity to the world. 



Sunday, 22. Our congregations are uncommonly 

 large. 



Friday, 27. Observed a general fast; met the peo- 

 ple in the Church, and read Joel i. 12-18. Fasted 

 from two o'clock on Thursday until half-past five on 

 Friday. Wish we could have solemn monthly fasts 

 and love-feasts before sacrament. 



Sunday, March 1. Preached in the forenoon and 

 afternoon; my parting subject was 1 Cor. xvi. 23, 24. 

 The congregation was very large, and if the people are 

 prudent and the preachers faithful, we shall have a 

 work in this place. 



After laboring two months in Charleston, Bishop 

 Asbury devoted another month to visiting the Edisto, 

 Saluda, Broad Biver, and Union circuits, preaching 

 at divers places in each, and concluding with a quar- 

 terly-meeting on Saturday, 4th, and Sunday, 5th April, 



