Lewis Craig,



executors. This will was probated in the Mason
County Court at the September term, 1825.
  According to Mr. George W. Ranck, author
of "The Traveling Church", he died in the
summer of 1825, in his eighty-fifth year; ac-
cording to Collins, the eighty-seventh.
  We come now to the most important event in
his life, that of his new birth. Up to the year
1765, or thereabout, he had lived, according
to his own statement, "in all kinds of vanity,
folly and vice", but now there came a change,
an "awakening", which was wrought by the
preaching of Samuel Harris. A deep sense of
his guilt and condemnation came upon him.
"He was convicted of sin"-his sin and his
guilt. Of this period in his life Rev. John
Taylor writes:
  "Mr. Craig's great pressure of guilt induced
him to follow the preachers from one meeting
to another. And when preaching was ended
hle would rise up in tears and loudly exclaim
that he was a justly condemned sinner, and
with loud voice warn the people to fly from the
wrath to come, and except they were born again,
with him, they would all go down to hell.
While under his exhortation the people would
weep and cry aloud for mercy. In this man-
ner his ministry began before he himself had
hope of conversion, and after relief came to



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