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and the rest of the family anxiously inquiring what 

 they must do to be saved. Nor was the work confined 

 to them only, but their neighbors hearing that the 

 preacher's prophecy had come to pass (which was no 

 prophecy at all, but spoken on the evidence of numer- 

 ous examples), they were flocking to see for them- 

 selves what had taken place. A class was formed, and 

 the next year my brother John w T as sent to form the 

 Cooper Biver Circuit." 



At the next Conference, held at Camden, December 

 21, 1811, he was appointed to Orangeburg Circuit, but, 

 in September, 1812, he was called off from his labors 

 to minister at the death-bed of his father. About mid- 

 summer of this same year he attended a camp-meeting 

 on Four Holes, just above the bridge on the old Orange- 

 burg road, deeply impressed with his want of holiness 

 and earnestly seeking a deeper work of grace, both for 

 his own happiness and that his ministry might be 

 profitable to the people. The result he thus describes: 



" The meeting closed, and left me to return to my 

 circuit, lacking in faith, in love, in the assurance of 

 the Holy Spirit, and not, as I had hoped, strong and 

 exultant. I had never since my conversion felt more 

 dissatisfied with myself than I did as, riding pensive- 

 ly along the road to my circuit, I reviewed the history, 

 both of the meeting and of my purposes and feelings 

 in going to it and during its continuance; how much 

 I had needed, how little I had obtained; with what 

 strong desire I had anticipated it as a time of extraor- 

 dinary blessing, and to what little purpose it had 

 been improved. Should I return to the labors of my 

 circuit still unrefreshed, like Gideon's fleece, dry in 

 the midst of the dew of heaven? TVhy was it so? 

 Had I made an idol of the camp-meeting, trusting to 



