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Santee, and requested that one of the preachers should 

 visit them. The lot fell on me, and I found work for 

 a week. The appointment was made for preaching at 

 the house of the applicant on Sunday, at eleven o'clock 

 in the morning. There was a large congregation for 

 a thinly peopled country, who had not heard preach- 

 ing of any denomination for many years before. After 

 preaching I baptized a number of children, and the 

 people still hanging on, as if reluctant to go away, I 

 preached a second time. The text was Luke xix. 9: 

 ' This day is salvation come to this house.' And al- 

 though the people had been kept so long in attendance, 

 and the men generally stood up for want of room or 

 seats for sitting, their attention never flagged, so novel 

 was the occasion, and so truly was there a gracious 

 influence with them. In the midst of the second serv- 

 ice a daughter of Mr. Hale cried out and sank to the 

 floor. It produced but a momentary pause, and she 

 being taken into the next room, I proceeded with my 

 discourse, after remarking that it was not so surprising 

 that one who had suddenly come to the knowledge of 

 her condition as a sinner should be overpowered by it, 

 as that so many who could not believe themselves to 

 be in a safe state should be unconcerned about it. I 

 took it to be an instance of the literal fulfillment of the 

 text in the case of the young lady, who, I did not 

 doubt, would be enabled to confirm what I said when 

 I should visit them again. At the close of the service 

 I aj^pointed to preach on the following Friday even- 

 ing at the same place, and made an appointment for 

 Tuesday at a Mr. Compton's, near Lenud's Ferry. At 

 Compton's, too, there was a full attendance, and an 

 encouraging prospect. Returning to Hale's, I found 

 the new convert exceeding happy in the love of God, 



