CHAPTER XIII. 



For us is prepared the angelical guard ; 



The convoy attends — 

 A minist'ring host of invisible friends — 

 Heady-winged for their flight to the regions of light, 



The horses are come, 

 The chariots of Israel to carry us home. 



(Charles Wesley.) 



/^\ EOEGE DOUGHERTY was reared in New- 

 \J7~ berry District, near the Lexington line, in South 

 Carolina, and the year of his birth, from the best data 

 that can be obtained, was 1772. His parents were in 

 moderate circumstances, and his early educational 

 advantages, though better than those of many of his 

 associates, were far from being what would now be 

 called liberal. He began life as a teacher, and board- 

 ing with Mr. Eeamy, opened a school in the Fork of 

 Saluda and Broad rivers. In company with George 

 Clark, who was in charge of Saluda Circuit in 1797, 

 he attended the session of the South Carolina Confer- 

 ence held in Charleston January 1, 1798, as an appli- 

 cant for admission into the traveling connection. He 

 was received on trial by the Conference, and appointed 

 to Santee Circuit; in 1799, to Oconee: and the two 

 following years to Charleston. From 1802 to 1804 he 

 was presiding elder of the Saluda District, and the 

 two following years of the Camden District. Whilst 

 on this last district his health declined rapidly, and 

 at the Conference held in Sparta, Georgia, in 1807, he 

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