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hopes of liis recovery. On the physician answering 

 in the negative, and that he had probably but a few 

 days at farthest to survive, lie ordered the people 

 around him to lay him out as a corpse. When this 

 was executed, he desired them to go to several of his 

 (skeptical) friends and to inform them that he was 

 dead, and that he had made it his dying request that 

 they would come immediately after his decease, and 

 take a parting view of his dead body. His friends ac- 

 cordingly came; and while they were making their 

 remarks on the supposed corpse, he sprung up out of 

 bed in a moment, threw his arms around their necks, 

 and gave each of them a smart kiss, immediately after 

 which he returned into bed, and the next morning ex- 

 pired.' It is astonishing what force there is in the 

 modern philosophy, to make the conscience as hard as 

 a stone! From Mr. Eembert's, we set off for Brother 

 Moore's, who was once also a very useful traveling 

 preacher. The location of so many scores of our most 

 able and experienced preachers tears my very heart in 

 pieces. Methinks almost the whole continent would 

 have fallen before the power of God had it not been for 

 this enormous evil. At Brother Moore's we had a room 

 full of precious souls, all alive to God. On the next day, 

 I preached at one of our chapels, not far distant from 

 Brother Moore's, and administered the Lord's Supper. 

 We permitted a good many to remain spectators at 

 their own earnest importunity, and observing that sev- 

 eral young women, who were not communicants, were 

 under deep concern, we invited them, when the sacra- 

 ment was over, to draw near to the table, that we might 

 pray particularly for them. They did so, with tears 

 streaming down their cheeks, and we were favored 

 with a most profitable time, not only for them, but for 



