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tlio heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God? 

 And instinct said no, and all the loved ones on earth 

 seemed to say no ; but the words sounded to my heart 

 above the voice of earth and instinct, l Ye are come!' 

 and my spirit caught the transport and echoed back 

 to heaven, 'Ye are come!' In that moment I felt, as 

 can only be felt, ' the exceeding riches of his grace in 

 his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.' I re- 

 turned to my circuit with my strength renewed as the 

 eagle's, full of faith and comfort." 



The Conference met in Charleston, in December, 



1812, when he was ordained elder by Bishop McKen- 

 dree, and was appointed to Wilmington, in North 

 Carolina. He was married Thursday, January 13, 



1813, to Miss Anna White, a young lady of great per- 

 sonal attractions as well as moral and Christian ex- 

 cellence, in Georgetown District, and reached Wil- 

 mington on Friday of the following week. He writes : 



" We had been there but a week or two when we 

 had the honor of entertaining Bishop Asbury and his 

 excellent attendant, Brother Boehm, who passed a 

 Sabbath in Wilmington*. These were our first guests 

 in our first dwelling-place, the parsonage, which I 

 might call either a two-story dwelling-house or a 

 shanty, according to my humor. It was a two-story 

 house, actually erected in that form, and no mistake, 

 with its first story eight feet high, and the second be- 

 tween six and seven; quite high enough for a man to 

 stand in it with his hat off, as men always ought to 

 stand when in a house. The stories, to be sure were 

 not excessive as to length and breadth any more than 

 height, each story constituting a room of some eight- 

 een feet by twelve or fourteen, and the upper one 

 having the benefit of a sort of step-ladder on the out- 



