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were multiplied around him. Hope seemed to be lost 

 in assurance, and faith in certainty. In the nearness 

 of his communion with God he discovered a compas- 

 sion so ready and earnest to save that he asked for the 

 exercise of it with an assurance which often seemed 

 presumptuous to ordinary Christians. But his sacri- 

 fices were well-pleasing in the sight of God, who gave 

 to his prayers and his preaching a degree of success 

 seldom witnessed since the time of the apostles. Sev- 

 eral thousand souls were given to him within the 

 South Carolina Conference as the seals of his ministry 

 and the crown of his eternal rejoicing. 



Lewis Myers. 



Lewis Myers was born at Indian Fields, in Colleton 

 District, South Carolina, on the 7th of May, 1775. 

 He heard Henry Willis preach in 1786; also Isaac 

 Smith and others, who in succession traveled the 

 Edisto Circuit, and was often much affected under the 

 word. In 1795 he became private teacher in the fam- 

 ily of Jacob Humph, and at the end of five months 

 opened a school near Judah's Meeting-house, where 

 he regularly attended on preaching days, taking his 

 pupils with him. He was received into the member- 

 ship of the Church by Tobias Gibson, then in charge 

 of the Edisto Circuit, on the 7th of May, 1796, and on 

 the 10th of August, in class-meeting, after Enoch 

 George had preached, and while Mr. Gibson was ex- 

 amining the class, he felt such manifest influence of 

 divine grace upon his heart as to 



Assure his conscience of her part 

 In the Redeemer's blood. 



He resolved to devote himself to the ministry of 

 the gospel, and received from Mr. Gibson a license to 



