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judicious management acquired the confidence and 

 respect of all who made it an object of inquiry. And 

 the restraints against preaching being removed in 

 1826, chiefly through the intervention of the United 

 States Government, the mission presented a more 

 flattering prospect, so that in 1829 there were reported 

 seventy-one members at the Asbury station, and the 

 school consisted of fifty scholars. Under this state of 

 things the friends of the cause began to grow hopeful, 

 but such were the increasing difficulties thrown in the 

 way, and so earnest was the call for help in other 

 fields, that, in 1830, it was thought best to discontinue 

 the mission. The labor in this field, however, was 

 not lost, since many of the Indians, who, after their 

 removal beyond the Mississippi River, were gathered 

 into the fold of Christ, traced their religious impres- 

 sions to the faithful instructions of Father Smith and 

 his pious associates and successors, Messrs. Andrew 

 Hammill, Daniel G. McDaniel, Matthew Raiford, 

 Whitman C. Hill, Nathaniel A. Rhodes, and Robert 

 Rogers. 



In 1820 the territory of Florida was ceded to the 

 United States as an indemnity for the spoliations 

 committed by Spanish cruisers, and in 1823 Joshua 

 N. Glenn was sent as a missionary to St. Augustine, 

 the oldest town in North America, and raised in one 

 year, amidst the opposing influence of the Spanish 

 Catholics, a society of twelve whites and forty colored. 

 The Chattahoochee mission, in the bounds of the 

 Florida territory, was served the same year by John 

 I. Triggs and John Slade, who, by zealous and per- 

 severing labor, notwithstanding the newness of the 

 country and the scattered state of the population, 

 were able to report a membership of two hundred and 



