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engagement with Mr. Withers, on the 31st of October, 

 In- was married to Miss Susan McGill, in Kershaw 

 District, and at the commencement of the year 1817 

 opened a school in Georgetown. His school was well 

 attended, and yielded him an income adequate to the 

 support of his family. He preached every Sabbath 

 in his own " hired house, and had reason to believe 

 that his" labors were not in vain: and yet he was not 

 happy, for he was constantly impressed with the con- 

 viction that it was his duty to reenter the itinerancy. 

 Accordingly, he applied for the privilege of reitdmis- 

 sion into the Conference, and was again at his work 

 as a traveling preacher in January, 1818, being ap- 

 pointed to Columbia, South Carolina. He says: 



" My friends in Columbia will excuse the liberty I 

 take in what I here say of the accommodations fur- 

 nished the preacher in 1818, and may even take a 

 pleasure in contrasting the present with the past in 

 that respect. They will hardly dream of any reflection 

 on them by a statement of facts, any more than that 

 pattern society of Methodists in Wilmington might at 

 the present time by the facts of the time of my service 

 in that place. The cases were different, to be sure, 

 for in 1818, in Columbia, we had some five or six 

 brethren, any one of whom was worth more than an 

 equivalent of all the property of all the Methodists of 

 Wilmington in 1813 put together. And it is also true 

 that these richer brethren were the stewards. I men- 

 tion it to show what was the general state of things 

 among us at that time as regarded the support of the 

 preachers; and shall be faithful, without the slightest 

 feeling of any possible unkindness. 



" The parsonage-honse was of one story, about forty 

 feet long, eighteen or twenty wide, and consisted of 



