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up into everlasting life."' Upon being informed by
his physician that his case was hopeless, he imme-
diately requested all in the room to kneel down,
when he called on a minister who was present to
pray. During the prayer he rejoiced aloud, while
his countenance was bright and angelic. On the
28th of May, 1842, he sweetly fell asleep in Jesus.
  Although the revivals of religion were not so
powerful nor so extensive this year as they were
during the past, yet there was much to encourage
the Church.
  In the Maysville District there was a net increase
of three hundred and twenty-five white and sixty-
eight colored members. John Christian Harrison
succeeded Isaac Collord on this District, and in every
department of duty belonging to the responsible
office of Presiding Elder he was a master and a
workman. The only change made in the arrange-
ment of the work was the formation of a German
Mission, called Maysville and West Union, to which
John Bier was appointed, and which, at the next
Conference, reported sixty-eight members. At the
close of the first round of quarterly-meetings, Mr.
Harrison writes: "Several of the charges have en-
joyed seasons of revival since Conference. As far
as I can ascertain, near three hundred have been
redeived on probation, in the bounds of the District,
during the first quarter." 
  On the 9th of March Isham R. Finley writes from
Maysville: " There has been an accession to thY
Church here, since Conference, of between fifty and
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