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ings devoted his utmost energies to the founding of Methodism in 

 the extreme South, and fell at last in Lincoln county, Georgia, in 

 JJB8. The Conference recorded his obituary in a single significant 

 sentence: "John Major, a simple-hearted man, a living, loving 

 soul, who died as he lived, full of faith and the Holy Ghost; ten 

 years in the work; useful and blameless." He was armed with the 

 irresistible eloquence of tears, and so beloved by the .people that 

 they would have risked their lives to rescue him from insult or in- 

 jury. "I have seen," says Mr. Ware, "an audience sit quietly and 

 listen to a masterly discourse without a tear to moisten the eye of 

 an individual, and then Major, by an exhortation of five minutes, 

 produce such an effect that all seemed to melt before him so that 

 there was scarcely a dry eye in the whole assembly. I once heard 

 this good man when the Methodists principally for forty miles 

 around, and some for more than fifty, were collected at a quarterly- 

 meeting on the favored peninsula. His text was, "Unto you who 

 believe he is precious." Before he closed his pathetic discourse, 

 his voice was lost in the cries of the people; and at the close of the 

 meeting we had occasion to rejoice over many sons and daughters 

 redeemed by power as well as by price." 



Moore, Joseph (see Chapter X.). 



Miles, Samuel was born in Northampton county, North Caro- 

 lina, in 1780; converted in 1800; admitted on trial in the traveling 

 connection in 1802, but in consequence of his father's death im- 

 mediately after did not enter the work till 1804, when he was sent 

 to Ogeechee Circuit; 1805, Little Pedee; 1806, Columbia; 1807, 

 Buncombe ; 1808, Lincoln ; 1809, Charleston; 1810, Milledgeville; 

 1811, Camden, where he died at the house of Absalom Blanchard, 

 on the 8th of June. He was grave in his manners, plain in dress, 

 a strict disciplinarian, an excellent pastor, and successful preacher. 

 In his last sickness, though frequently delirious, his mind seemed 

 fixed on the great work in which he had been employed ; and the 

 whole night before he died he was as if engaged in prayer and 

 preaching, rising on his feet and dismissing congregations. His 

 last words were a quotation from Luke xxii. 28, 29. 



McDaniel, Daniel G. was born in Georgetown, District ot 

 Columbia, February 15, 1791; converted in 1811; admitted on trial 

 in the South Carolina Conference in 1821, and appointed to Broad 

 Eiver Circuit; 1822, Black Swamp; 1823, Asbury Mission; 1824, 

 Yellow Eiver Mission ; 1825, St. Augustine; 1826, Pea Eiver Mis- 

 sion; 1827, Homes's Valley Mission; 1828, Ohoope; 1829, Hollow 



