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rough roads would always afford a plentiful experience. 

 He drove a sorrel horse that generally moved as de- 

 liberately and steadily as his master was wont to do. 

 One day as he was jogging along over a certain cause- 

 way in South Carolina — the road being perfectly- 

 straight and level for a mile or more — a friend of his, 

 with whom he often lodged, spied him at a considerable 

 distance, and resolved to have some amusement at the 

 old gentleman's expense. So taking his position by 

 the road-side, he waited till Mr. Myers was just about 

 to pass, when, stepping out and seizing his horse's 

 bridle, he said in a stern voice, " Deliver your money! " 

 The good man waked up as from a profound reverie, 

 began to beg the robber to let him pass, as he had ap- 

 pointments ahead, and time was precious; but the 

 robber seemed inexorable and the only response to all 

 his pleading was, "Deliver your money!" So he be- 

 gan reluctantly to pull out his pocket-book, where- 

 upon the robber exclaimed, " Why, friend Myers, do n't 

 you know me?" And then for the first time he dis- 

 covered that it was his friend Solomons, at whose house 

 he had often lodged. 



On the whole Lewis Myers may well be regarded as 

 one of the leading pioneers of Methodism in the South 

 Carolina Conference, and has left behind him a name 

 that deserves to be kept in enduring remembrance. 



Eeddick Pierce. 



"My venerable brother," says Dr. Lovick Pierce, 

 "was born in Halifax county, North Carolina, Sep- 

 tember 26, 1782, and died in Barnwell District, South 

 Carolina, July 24, 1860, at the residence of Jacob Stro- 

 mal!, Esq., not many miles from the place on which 

 we were reared. My father removed from North Caro- 



