Contents. 



CHAPTER XXIW 



The Beginning of the Wae. 



Colored Congregation — His Defence -Old Plenty — 

 Boston Drayton— Bishop Payne— Jehu Jones— Ser- 

 mon on Dutv of the Christian to his Country— 

 The Ordinance of Secession— Letter to Edmund 

 Ruffin— Takes on Hospital Stores to Virginia— A 

 Comforter to his Grandson— Measles— Unexpected 

 Visitors— Bread Cast on the Waters— Found In- 

 sensible—St. John's Church Closed 872 



CHAPTER XXV. 



During the War. 



Christmas, 1863— The Children's Festival— Death of 

 his Wife — Visit to Concord— Letters— Charleston 

 Evacuated— He leaves for Columbia— Encounters 

 the Federal Army at Cash's Station— Cruel Treat- 

 ment—Return to Charleston— St. John's Re-open- 

 ed— The Congregation Poor but United — Feeble- 

 ness and Failing Eyesight 887 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



After the War. 



An Assistant Pastor Engaged — Address on Humboldt 

 —Fifty-fifth Anniversary Sermon — Rev. W. W. 

 Hicks Elected Co-Pastor— Proposed Enlargement 

 of St. John's— Opposition— The Scheme Abandon- 

 ed — Resignation of Co-Pastor Accepted — Rev. 

 John H. Honour Elected Associate Pastor— Fruit 

 After Many Days— A Grandson Studies for the 

 Ministry....*. 4()() 



CHAPTER XXVn. 



Illness and Convalesence. 



Letter from J. A Brown, D. D., and Dr. Bachman's 

 Reply— From Rev. J. B. Haskell— Reply to Letters 

 from' INIilestown, Pa. — Correspondence Between 

 John Haskell and his Grandfather — Letters to A. 

 R. Rude, I\ D.— Mr. John S. Fake— Rev. T. W. 

 Dosh— Bereavement — Decline 428 



