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past! — once, how holy and innocent! We reached 

 Benjamin Weat hersby's on Friday evening. Cold, very 

 cold weather. We came into Augusta on Saturday 

 evening. We dined in the woods. 



Sabbath, 18. I preached in Augusta Chapel. My 

 flesh sinks under labor. We are riding in a poor thir- 

 ty-dollar chaise, in partnership, two bishops of us, but 

 it must be confessed it tallies well with the weight of 

 our purses: what bishops! well; but we hear great 

 news, and we have great times, and each Western, 

 Southern, and the Virginia Conference will have one 

 thousand souls truly converted to God; and is not this 

 an equivalent for a light purse? and are we not well 

 paid for starving and toil ? Yes ; glory be to God ! We 

 came away to Wysing's on Monday, and next day 

 toiled through a very heavy rain to the widow Fount- 

 ain's. We remained Thursday and Friday in Sparta, 

 and went on Saturday to Brother Bush's. 



Sabbath, 25. Christmas-day. I preached at Lib- 

 erty Chapel, on John iii. 17. We opened our Confer- 

 ence on Monday, at Liberty Chapel. We had great 

 labor which we went through in great peace. Between 

 sixty and seventy men were present, all of one spirit. 

 We appointed three missionaries — one for Tombigbee, 

 one to Ashley and Savannah, and the country between, 

 and one to labor between Santee and Cooper rivers. 

 Increase within the bounds of this Conference, three 

 thousand and eighty-eight! Preaching and exhorta- 

 tions and singing and prayer — we had all these with- 

 out intermission on the camp-ground, and we have 

 reasons to believe that many souls will be converted. 

 The number of traveling and local preachers present 

 is about three hundred. There are people here with 

 their tents who have come one hundred and fifty 



