suppose they were French Jews. They and the Lowes, Smiths, and Jenkinses lived in Guilford Co., North Carolina, My grandfather lived in Rowan Co., North Carolina, twenty-five miles east of Salisbury. Judge Lowe, of Ind., is mother's cousin; the Crows, Hancocks, Lees, Harrisons, and many others scattered far and wide, are our relatives. The most of our kin were Methodists; grandfather Hearne was a High Churchman, having an office to bury the dead.

When I was about three years old, my grandmother thought I might not live long, as I was so mild and agreeable; but some time after that, my uncle Jacob Skein, whom I was named for, became a drunkard, and she expressed her fears that I would be one too, and her saving this caused me to be more cautious and temperate than I would have been. I got drunk once, when a boy, on two drams of strong brandy on a fasting stomach early in the morning, and I have been very cautious ever since; I don't think I have drunk of spirits or coffee one drop in thirty years. Coffee, spirits, cider, store tea, tobacco, opium, and calomel I wish my friends not to use, only for sacrament and in cases of extreme necessity, for it is all medicine. I was the eldest child of nine, and went through much hardship, but had a good constitution. Old Father Wm. Carr, said the good Lord directed and blessed me. I have been imposed on in many ways, but. I suppose. have gotten through the world as smoothly as most persons having so little education and a short memory. I went to school eight months, and to ten teachers; part of the time to a Quaker woman; besides, I taught a few months in Tennessee and Indiana. Before I took a circuit to preach, a wicked man, who was not wealthy and no relation, offered to educate me free of cost, but I refused, feeling that I must labor for Christ as if every day was the last with me and every one else. I had made about $1,000 honestly, and I felt willing to go to the ends of the earth and spend the last cent I had, and my life, if I could be instrumental in the hands of the Lord in saving one poor soul that without my help would be lost. I feel the Lord has been good to me; therefore I praise and bless His holy name.

As to the name Hearne, this is the way it is spelled, but some of the learned of this country have thought the last e should be left out. I have the e in my records, and am sorry it was left out of the Methodist minutes. The first time I recollect of feeling serious was

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