During the session of the conference there was much eloquent and powerful preaching. On Sunday, the 8th, George Pickering preached in the market-house, and three preachers exhorted after him, Joseph Totten, Francis Ward, and S. Budd. There was a mighty shaking among the people. This was early in the morning. At half past ten I heard William M’Kendree from, “Is there no balm in Gilead,” etc. This was the eloquent sermon that made him bishop. The late Dr. Bangs gives a graphic description of it. Slow in his commencement, he rose with his subject, till his audience were melted like wax before the fire. In the afternoon Rev. Stith Mead, from Virginia, preached at Oldtown. Bishop Asbury preached, in Eutaw-street, the opening sermon of the new chapel, from 2 Cor. iii, 12, “Seeing then we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.” The crowd was immense and the sermon characteristic. There was not only preaching on Sunday, but three times every day in the Light-street Church, and every evening in the four other churches, namely: The Point, Oldtown, African, and the New Church, (Eutaw.) Several were converted during the week, but we saw no such scenes as occurred during the General Conference of 1800. The Conference elected William M’Kendree bishop. There was great unanimity in regard to the choice, for on the first ballot he received ninety-five out of one hundred and twenty-eight votes. Sunday the 15th was a great day. William M’Kendree, bishop elect, preached at seven o’clock in the Marsh market. My record says: “This was an awful time of the power and presence of the Lord.” At ten o’clock Bishop Asbury, in Light-street Church, and the sheep were gloriously fed by the under shepherd. In the afternoon Jacob Gruber preached in German, at three o’clock, in Father Otterbein’s church; Brother M’Kendree again at five, in the New Church; and John M’Claskey at Light-street in the evening. On Wednesday, the 18th, William M’Kendree was consecrated to the office and work of a bishop. Previous to the ordination Bishop Asbury preached from 1 Tim. iv, 16, “Take heed unto thyself,” etc. Freeborn Garrettson, Philip Bruce, Jesse Lee, and Thomas Ware assisted Bishop Asbury in the ordination service, they being the oldest ministers present. The future life of Bishop M’Kendree, his efficient services for years, show the wisdom of the choice.