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and were useful and respectable traveling preachers; 

 the former laboring twelve, the latter seven year's in 

 the ministry. But the elder Douthet had a failing — 

 he was fond of liquor, and indulged himself, and 

 backslid a second time; retaining, nevertheless, his 

 character for strict integrity and his habit of private 

 prayer, occasionally hearing the gospel. Last sum- * 

 mer he fell ill, and came to lie down and die at his 

 son James's; here he became a true penitent, was 

 blessed with justifying and sanctifying grace, and slept 

 in peace in the seventy-third year of his age. 



Tuesday, November 2. We visited Taliaferro's, and 

 went forward to B. Lyon's. 



Thursday, 4. Called a meeting at Edward McCraw's ; 

 I spoke with enlargement of mind on Heb. x. 38, 39. 

 We saw Henry Gains, a disciple since 1777; now 

 feeble, but wishing to be faithful unto death. Came 

 forward to Conner's, Abbeville District. 



Sabbath, 7. I preached in the tabernacle, on 2 Cor. 

 v. 11. If the people say it was like thunder and 

 lightning, I shall not be surprised. I spoke in poAver 

 from God, and there was a general and deep feeling 

 in the congregation: thine, O Lord, be all the glory! 

 Came home with James Cox. 



Monday, 8. I gave an alarming lecture at John 

 Branan's. There is a serious mortality on the mid- 

 dle and lowlands of South Carolina and Georgia. 



Tuesday, 9. We rode through the heat, crossing 

 the Little Biver to Mr. Shield's, twenty miles. 



Georgia— Wednesday, 20. We continued on to 

 Petersburg, into Georgia. I preached at Sparta, and 

 ordained two deacons. A journey of six days from 

 Sparta brought us to Savannah; we were careful to 

 leave our testimony and pray with every family where 



