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exhort, which he used sparingly. Feeling the need 

 of a higher degree of intellectual culture in order to 

 the more successful prosecution of his work, he be- 

 came a student in Succoth A cademy, near Washin.g- 

 ton, in Georgia, then under the superintendence of 

 Hope Hull . Having gone through a course of study 

 in that institution, he was admitted on trial in the 

 South Carolina Conference in 1799, and appointed to 

 the Little Pedee and Anson Circuit; in 1800, to Orange- 

 burg; in 1801, to Bush Eiver and Cherokee; in 1802, 

 to Broad River; in 1803, to Little River; in 1801, to 

 Ogeechee; in 1805, to Bladen; in 1806, to Charleston. 

 The three following years he was presiding elder of 

 the Saluda District; from 1810 to 1814, of the Ogee- 

 chee District; from 1814 to 1818, of the Oconee Dis- 

 trict. The two following years he was stationed in 

 Charleston. From 1820 to 1824 he was presiding 

 elder of the Edisto District; in 1824, stationed in 

 Georgetown; from 1825 to 1829, was supernumerary, 

 after which he took a superannuated relation and set- 

 tled, and opened a school at. Goshen^ in Effingham 

 county, Geo rgia. In March, 1847, he became para- 

 lyzed, and his naturally vigorous intellect suffered an 

 almost total eclipse. Even after his body and mind 

 both became thus a wreck, his heart evidently still 

 clung with all the tenacity of which it was capable to 

 that dear and blessed cause to which the energies of 

 his life had been given. He died on the 16th of No- 

 vember, J851. Mr. Myers was not specially attractive 

 in his personal appearance. He was not very tall, but 

 was what is commonly called chunky. His head was 

 rather large, and his whole appearance and manner 

 indicated what he really was— a plain, straightfor- 

 ward, earnest Christian man. As a preacher, he took 



