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trations of Elder, now Bishop, Jabez P. Campbell, who was appointed to the charge of Union A. M. E. Church, won him over to the cause of the Saviour. One Sabbath Elder Campbell preached from Judges, fifth chapter and twenty-third verse: "Curse ye Meroz, saith the angel of the Lord; curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they come not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty." This decided him; he could no longer be an enemy to God, who was so good and gracious to him, no longer could he be indifferent. He determined to go on the Lord's side. By the advice of his friend, Mr. Weir, he attended class. Said Brother Faucett, when I entered the door of the church, I resolved that all my associates and worldly interests that were contrary to the will of my Saviour should be left on the outside. In a word, I consecrated myself to God. Since then no desire have I had to again be entangled with them. On the next Sunday, after Elder Campbell had finished preaching Brother Faucett advanced to the altar and asked him "If he could join the church." Of course he was gladly taken in, and from that time became an active worker. Brother Faucett was made a local preacher by Elder Campbell. At an annual conference held in Salem, New Jersey, he was ordained local deacon by Bishop Willis Nazarey. While in a local capacity, under the Rev. A. L. Stanford, Bro. Faucett built up a fine congregation at Nineteenth and Spring Garden street. He attended to it until he went into the itineracy. His first active appointment was from Bishop Campbell, who appointed him to Burlington Circuit; but prior to this he had received, at the hands of Bishop A. W. Wayman, who held conference at Princeton, N. J., the appointment to Bridgeton. The second year of his itinerant life, he was at the session of the Philadelphia Conference, held at Bethel Church, Philadelphia, and there was made Elder, together with Revs. Frisby, J. Copper and Joseph Nelson. He served as Missionary Secretary of the Philadelphia Annual Conference until he asked to be one of the members selected to form the New Jersey Annual Conference. From that time until the present he has been an active member of the New Jersey Annual Conference, and has filled most of the important appointments. He was a firm believer in the working of a practical Presiding Eldership, which position he held for three years, then resigned,
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