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 shorter; nor were other proselytes wanting on whom his persuasives had equal influence: so that the preaching coal-*heaver himself never in so short a time shot more sinners into the cellar of repentance, than this worthy instructor Roger O'Rourke.

Having thus established the holiness of methodism throughout Etterick and its dependencies, Mr. O'Rourke now began the improvement of his doctrines. He made ardent love to Miss Sukey, though generally arrayed in scripture phraseology. "Come, kiss me," he would say, "with the kisses of thy lips, for thy love is sweeter than wine." It was at length concerted between Mr. Roger and Miss Sukey, that they should be privately married in the sight of heaven; Miss did doubt that her influence with her parents, added to the influence of Mr. O'Rourke and his methodism,