XXIII. SECOND ANNUAL TOUR—WESTERN AND SOUTHERN CONFERENCES 254 XXIV. TOUR TO VIRGINIA, BALTIMORE, AND PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCES 273 XXV. NEW ENGLAND AND GENESEE CONFERENCES OF 1810 289 XXVI. ANNUAL TOUR, 1810—WESTERN CONFERENCE 310 XXVII. TOUR TO SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE 322 XXVIII. VIRGINIA, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCES 333 XXIX. BISHOP ASBURY’S FIRST VISIT TO CANADA 348 XXX. FOURTH WESTERN AND SOUTHERN TOUR—CONFERENCES OF 1811 363 XXXI. DEATH, FUNERAL, AND CHARACTER OF REV. MARTIN BOEHM 372 XXXII. THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST—SKETCH OF OTTERBEIN, ETC. 387 XXXIII. PHILADELPHIA AND GENERAL CONFERENCE OF 1812 394 XXXIV. NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND, AND GENESEE CONFERENCES 399 XXXV. MY LAST TOUR WITH BISHOP ASBURY 405 XXXVI. SCHUYLKILL DISTRICT, 1813-14 416 XXXVII. CHESAPEAKE DISTRICT—GOVERNOR BASSETT’S DEATH AND CHARACTER 424 XXXVIII. GENERAL CONFERENCE—ASBURY’S FUNERAL, ETC. 430 XXXIX. BISHOP ASBURY—CHARACTER AND HABITS 438 XL. DEATH OF JESSE LEE—HIS CHARACTER 460 XLI. CHESAPEAKE DISTRICT—TOURS WITH BISHOPS GEORGE AND M’KENDREE 466 XLII. DELAWARE DISTRICT, 1819-21—THOMAS AND EDWARD WHITE—JOSHUA THOMAS—CIRCUITS 472 XLIII. LAST VISIT TO MY NATIVE PLACE—WESTERN TOUR 481 REMINISCENCES OF REV. HENRY BOEHM. [Illustration] CHAPTER I. MY ANCESTORS AND MY EARLY DAYS. My forefathers were from Switzerland. There is romance in their history as well as in the land of their birth. Jacob Boehm, my great-great-grandfather, was a Presbyterian. His son Jacob learned a trade. It was a custom in Switzerland for all who completed their apprenticeship to travel three years through the country as itinerant journeymen. The design was to make them finished workmen; and no man could enter into business for himself, no matter how well qualified, until he pursued this course.