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fight, with a bone (or a book) for the prize, and all 

 under warrant of Scripture, as they hold it. 



"We had scarcely been made comfortable in our 

 new quarters before I found that our infant Church 

 was heavily in debt. And as I thought it better to 

 clear away the rubbish at first, I immediately under- 

 took a journey by the way of our liberal friends on 

 Black Swamp, in Beaufort District, to Charleston, for 

 the purpose of removing this incubus. I was gone 

 about three weeks, when I returned with eighteen 

 hundred dollars, which, together with an arrangement 

 for renting part of the parsonage-house for a few 

 years (which had been constructed with a view to 

 something of the sort), canceled the debt, and set us 

 at .liberty. The class and public collections were 

 ample for all our wants, and, as regarded temporal 

 things, there was no lack. I might not say that we 

 ' fared sumptuously every day,' but we had a cornf ort- 

 able sufficiency of all good things. And this was that 

 'forlorn-hope' which had been considered so very 

 trying that my good Bishop would not send me to it 

 till he had first got my consent to go. 



"With respect to the more important matters of 

 ministerial success, it was manifest that in neither of 

 the towns where I had been was there so fair a pros- 

 pect of establishing our Church as here. Dr. Kol- 

 lock was right in judging that there was a large and 

 respectable portion of the community for whom the 

 Methodist ministry promised the most likely means 

 of conversion. And it was this judgment of that 

 noble-minded man which induced him to befriend us. 

 As time passed on, it was seen that we had gained a 

 permanent congregation, who worshiped nowhere else, 

 but morning, afternoon, and evening were to be found 



