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" She retained her faculties to the last, and could see to thread a needle, and read without spectacles, when in her 101st year."*
DANIEL COMBS entered the traveling connection in 1787, but was never received into full connection in the Conference.
WILLIAM JACKSON entered the traveling connection in 1789, and was appointed to Burlington. In 1790 he was sent to Bethel circuit ; we do not learn his appoint- ment for 1791; in 1792 he located.
RICHARD SWAIN was a native of New Jersey, and en- tered the itinerant ministry in 1789. He traveled the following circuits respectively : 1789, Trenton ; 1790- 91, Flanders ; 1792, Middletown, Connecticut ; 1793, New London ; 1794, Salem, New Jersey; 1795, Bur- lington ; 1796, Freehold; 1797, Trenton; 1798, Free- hold; 1799-1800, Salem; 1801, Bethel; 1802, Cape May; 1803, Salem. From 1804 to 1808 he was a supernumerary. On the 17th of January of the latter year he died "in confident peace, triumphant faith, and smiles of a present God."
* Communication from Rev. H. B. Beegle.
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He was endowed by nature with quick and solid parts, and sometimes gave evidence of possessing wit, which gleamed out pleasantly in his preaching and conversa- tion. He maintained an unexceptionable character as a minister, and his labors were productive of good. "He traveled," say his brethren, "in the extreme parts of the work before things were made ready to his hands, and bore a part of the burden and heat of the day.
" We trust that he was made perfect through suffering, and triumphant in death. And possibly it requires more faith and fortitude to wear out in a confirmed af- fliction, and a state of dependence, than to go through the most extreme labor and sufferings in the field of ac- tion. It must be exceedingly painful for a person ac- customed to extensive traveling to be bound and fettered by affliction, as a prisoner of Divine Providence ; and, in a great degree, cut off from the service of God, his worship, and all Christian fellowship ; not only as a minister, but as a member of society. Thus some souls are tried in the furnace of affliction. Deep calleth unto deep ! The raging billows go over them : but they will soon reach the peaceful shore; gain their haven, the rest of the weary and afflicted, the palace of angels and God, where, with new powers, they will see the rising glory, and sing forever the praise of Jesus, their Lord !
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" Oh ! what are all my sufferings here, . If, Lord, thou count me meet With that enraptured host t' appear, And worship at thy feet !"*
Kind and patient reader, my task is done. May it be fraught with as much blessing to thee as it has been with toil, and care, and pleasure to me. May the examples of Christian fidelity and zeal, and of ministerial heroism, herein so imperfectly portrayed, incite thee to an intenser devotion, and to more abundant and successful labors for God and humanity; and then shall my labor not be in vain.
* Minutes, 1808.
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JOHN ALBERT BENGEL'S
GNOMON
THE NEW TESTAMENT. OF
POINTING OUT
FROM THE NATURAL FORCE
OF THE
WORDS, THE SIMPLICITY, DEPTH, HARMONY, AND SAVING POWER OF ITS DIVINE THOUGHTS.
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