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supporting himself by the railing of the chancel, he 

 said: ' I have come to say my last word to you. It is 

 this: None but Christ. Three times I have had my 

 life in jeopardy for preaching the gospel to you. 

 Three times I have broken the ice on the edge of the 

 water and swam across the Cape Fear to preach the 

 gospel to you. And now, if in my last hour I could 

 trust to that, or to any thing else but Christ crucified, 

 for my salvation, all should be lost, and my soul per- 

 ish forever.' A noble testimony! Worthy, not of 

 Evans only, but St. Paul. His funeral at the church 

 was attended by a greater concourse of persons than 

 had been seen on any funeral occasion before. The 

 whole community appeared to mourn his death, and 

 the universal feeling seemed to be that in honoring 

 the memory of Henry Evans we were paying a tribute 

 to virtue and religion. He was buried under the 

 chancel of the church of which he had been in so re- 

 markable a manner the founder." 



At the close of the year (December 22, 1810) Mr. 

 Capers attended Conference at Columbia, South Car- 

 olina ; was ordained deacon, and appointed, contrary to 

 all his expectations, to the city of Charleston. Here he 

 passed the year pleasantly and usefully, and, with his 

 colleagues, was instrumental in introducing stated 

 preaching at the poor-house. He also opened the way 

 to the formation of a new circuit. 



"In September I attended a call to the country, 

 which, by God's blessing, produced the nucleus of 

 Cooper River Circuit. A Mr. Hale, living on the main 

 road between Clemens's Ferry (five miles above 

 Charleston) and Lenud's Ferry, on Santee, ten miles 

 from the latter place, had represented the destitution 

 of preaching in his neighborhood and that part of 



