. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. hatthey do not fully and fairly express the things for which they are used,ancl no more. The nearest we could come to avoiding this difficultywould be, on using a term, to show at the beginning that in no othersense is it to be understood by the hearers or readers on that occasion,or in that treatise. His transfer to Pittsburgh, and the probability that hewould never more live in Cadiz, led to the breaking up ofthe old home. His sister Hetty had married Mr. GeorgeMcCullough, and Mr. McCullough had purchased a farmat Wells


. The life of Bishop Matthew Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. hatthey do not fully and fairly express the things for which they are used,ancl no more. The nearest we could come to avoiding this difficultywould be, on using a term, to show at the beginning that in no othersense is it to be understood by the hearers or readers on that occasion,or in that treatise. His transfer to Pittsburgh, and the probability that hewould never more live in Cadiz, led to the breaking up ofthe old home. His sister Hetty had married Mr. GeorgeMcCullough, and Mr. McCullough had purchased a farmat Wellsville, on the Ohio Eiver, whither he purposed mov-ing ; uncle and mother decided to accompany him. It waswhile the family were in Wellsville that the son marriedMiss Ellen IT. Yerner, of Pittsburgh. The uncle tells ofthis in the letter following: Cadiz, Jan. 19, 1835. George McCullough has articled for a farm on the Ohio, seven milesabove the mouth of Yellow Creek, and between the towns of Wellsvilleand Fawcetstown, three miles from the former and one from the UNCLE MATTHEW SIMPSON. THE NEW HOME ON TEE OHIO. 105 The hill, viewed from the river, is a perpendicular precipice of rocks, ornearly so, but on the hill it is a level and beautiful farm. George expectsto be on it about the first of April, and lie wants us to go along, and itis likely we shall go then or not very long after. If we do, the steamboatwould conduct one from Pittsburgli to the place in a few hours almostany day. There follows a descri]:)tioii of the way to the new home,and then a reminder to the growing orator that if he doeswell, and hecause he does well, he will meet with detraction,even from Christians. Liverpool, April 13, 1835. At about a mile below the little town of Liverpool, in ColumbianaCounty, a little run, on which is a saw-mill, empties into the river; belowthe mouth of the run there is a small field, said to contain five acres ofbottom; you would guess two acres instead of five. Below th


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