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pointed the impenitent, the mourner, and the believer to the cross 

 of Jesus as the only refuge of man. As a pastor, visiting the sick y 

 comforting the afflicted, advising the perplexed, praying with the 

 tempted, and feeding the Saviour's lambs, he was remarkably suc- 

 cessful. When asked if Jesus was with him in the dark valley, he 

 replied, u O yes;" and so he died only as the true Christian can die. 



King, Edward L. was born in Fairfield District, South Caro- 

 lina, February 17, 1819; converted in early life; admitted on trial 

 in the South Carolina Conference in 1839, and sent to Columbia 

 Circuit; 1840, Kocky Mount Mission; 1841, Darlington Circuit; 

 1842, located; 1844, readmitted, and sent to Pleasant Grove; 1846, 

 St. Matthews Mission ; 1847, Lancaster Circuit ; 1848-49, Wateree 

 Mission; 1850, Sumterville; 1851, Cooper River Circuit; 1852, lo- 

 cated, and removed to Florida; 1873, readmitted, and sent for 1874 

 to Berkley Circuit ; and 1875, Columbia Circuit, where he ended his 

 labors and his life on the 19th of November. He was a man of vig- 

 orous mind, sound judgment, deep piety, and amiable disposition. 

 As a preacher, he was plain, earnest, practical, always conveying to 

 the minds of his hearers the impression that he was deeply con- 

 vinced of the truth of what he was preaching. He died without a 

 struggle, approaching his grave "like one who wraps the drapery 

 of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." 



Lemmond, Evan A. was born in Union county, North Carolina, 

 September 3, 1825; admitted on trial in the Conference in 1856, 

 and sent for 1857 to the Lexington Circuit; 1858-59, Greenville 

 Circuit ; 1860-61, Wateree Mission ; 1862-63, Sandy Eiver Mission ; 

 1864-65, Monroe Circuit; 1866, Sandy River Mission; 1867-68, 

 Mount Pleasant Circuit; 1869, Pineville Circuit; in December, 

 superannuated and returned to his old home, where he continued to 

 decline till he entered into rest February 17, 1870. He was a good 

 and faithful man, and a successful laborer in the vineyard of the Lord. 



Link, Algernon Sidney a native of Catawba county, North 

 Carolina, died at his father's residence November 14, 1864, in the 

 twenty-sixth year of his age. He was admitted on trial in the 

 South Carolina Conference in 1859, and sent for 1860 to Walterboro 

 Circuit; 1861, Conwayboro Mission; 1862, Rockville Circuit ; 1863, 

 Lexington Circuit; 1864, Wadesboro Station. He was in his right 

 mind to the last, and when near his death smiled and asked his 

 mother to kiss him, and entreated all present to meet him in 

 heaven. He was an exemplary Christian and a useful minister. 



Majo r, John through ten years of itinerant labors and suffer ■ 



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