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charge of a class, from that I passed the quarterly conference for an exhorter, and after that received license to preach and joined the travelling connexion. But here I would wish to give some moving causes before I joined the itineracy as a preacher.
After my conversion I was deeply impressed to go and preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, in which I disobeyed on the account of feeling not competent because I could not read very well, but that condemnation it appears was always in me, by these means I delayed my time, at last I started to go a journey and I was stopped by a thundergust and was caused to stop at a friends house, I was more affrighted when I recollected that a man and one child was killed in the same house by lightening,and I thought of my disobeying my master's call, that he was about to do me the same, I scarcely could pray, however I went to bed in the name of the Lord and went to sleep, an angel came unto my bed side in a vision to me, he appeared to have a candle about two feet long, tapped me on the shoulder and said arise and go with me, and I arose and sensible when I went out of the door and I came on a walk about four feet wide, and it; appeared to be solid gold, on each side stood popular trees about three feet apart, and it appeared to reach to the heavens; on viewing the sight I was lost in astonishment, I wondered what part of the country I was in that I ever saw the like, I thought of the western part of the country, but I found it was not that, and when I cast my eyes down it appeared that I stood on a sea of glass and seeing the black surface rolling beneath, and I said unto myself good Lord I shall fall for I am gone, and then thought of the words of our Lord to Peter "oh ye of little faith," and then I went on for some great distance but I do not know how far, at last I came to a large wall and put my left hand against it, and my hand stuck fast and the glass vanished away from beneath me, and nothing held me but my hand against the wall; when the glass vanished away I looked beneath me and I saw hell, and the discovery of some people, I had a knowledge of some hung by the hair of their heads, and others by their tongues, and others by their thumbs, and others by their two big toes, and in many other situations too awful to mention, and I saw a
