present salvation.

Point

the absolute necessity of tion by the remission of Spirit the bright eviden Saviour's blood. Lukewa ficient now to pull down t They must be attacked 1 and, as humble instrume hearts of our hearers. wretched formalists are d of the morning; and we out a screen betwixt. Le aim at being cities set lights of the world-at be and, poor earthen vessels and things that are notlisted on our side, becaus on our side. O what a sometimes favors me wit] nent, filled with inhabitan

God! The word of promise is on our side, ratified by the blood of the Lamb. It therefore must be so, for God hath spoken it.

"Pray for your faithful friend and brother,

'Liverpool, March 3, 1802.

"T. COKE.

"Do write to me once, before I see you, if you possibly can. I enjoy excellent health-the blessing of God; and I do assure you, my brother, I have no other intention but to pass the remainder of my poor life with you, from the next General Conference, God willing. T. C."

This year closed the labors of Wilson Lee in Kentucky. He had entered the District in 1787, and for six years he had been untiring in his energy in preaching the gospel of the Redeemer. But now, with wasted health and constitution broken, unable longer to remain and labor for the cause he loved so well, he naturally turns his thoughts to the older settlements, cherishing the hope of a return of health. Many hearts were touched at his departure. He had wept and prayed, and labored and suffered, with the infant Church, and had seen the fruit of his toil. Of him one of his cotemporaries* thus speaks:

"Wilson Lee was one of the most successful preachers among those early adventurers. He was a man of fine talents, meek and humble, of a sweet disposition, and not only a Christian and Christian

*Rev. William Burke, in Western Methodism, pp. 68, 69.

at Walter Worthington's, Maryland. The last time seeing him was in Georgeto bia, on my way to the Gene 1, 1804. He was then in a His affliction was hemorrl which he died. During th

Kentucky he passed throug privations, in weariness and nakedness, traveling from with a guard and sometime his life."

The causes, to which a re made, as having a tendency the infant Church, were in addition to which, the min occupied to a great extent would necessarily grow out the Government of the Stat Notwithstanding much h

first arrival of Messrs. Haw and Ogden, in 1786, yet we have to lament a smaller increase this year than any that had preceded it. Only ninety members more are reported than the previous year.

John Ball-Gabriel Woodfield-Death

THE Conference for the Wes was held in Kentucky, at Mast same place at which it conven vious. The session commence 30th of April, and embraced days of May.*

To reach the seat of the Con bury again encountered the da ness. His route from Tenness him by "Doe River, at the forl Gap,' presenting a most gloom the Shades of Death in the All On his way he held "a Con near Jonesboro," where they Anticipating trouble from presses trust in God, and feel:

*The Rev. William Burke says: "On Conference met at Masterson's Station." ( We, however, prefer to follow Asbury's J