A Book of Quaker SaintsHodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
Religion
A Book of Quaker Saints
Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
Society of Friends
'So they had quickly done with their preaching to the people at
that time, and they and the people went to their dinners, but
abundance stayed till they came again. And I went to a brook and
got me a little water, and so I came and sat me down atop of a
rock, (for the word of the Lord came to me that I must go and
sit upon the rock in the mountain, even as Christ had done
before).
'And in the afternoon the people gathered about me with several
separate teachers, where it was judged there was above a
thousand people. And all those several separate teachers were
convinced of God's everlasting truth that day, amongst whom I
declared freely and largely God's everlasting truth and word of
life about three hours. And there was many old people went into
the chapel and looked out of the windows and thought it a
strange thing to see a man to preach on a hill or mountain, and
not in their church as they called it. So I was made to open to
the people that the steeple-house and the ground whereon it
stood was no more holier than that mountain ... but Christ was
come who ended the temple and the priests and the tithes, and
Christ said, "Learn of me," and God said, "This is my beloved
Son, hear ye Him."
'For the Lord had sent me with His everlasting gospel to preach,
and His word of life so that they all might come to know Christ
their Teacher, their Counsellor, their Shepherd to feed them,
and their Bishop to oversee them, and their Prophet to open to
them, and to know their bodies to be temples of God and Christ
for them to dwell in.... And so, turning the people to the
Spirit of God, and from the darkness to the light, that they
might believe in it and become children of light.'
III
'Now, it is our turn,' insisted ruddy-faced John Audland, 'George Fox
must come home with me. My house at Crosslands will be the most
convenient resting-place for him, seeing it lies mid-way between here
and Preston Patrick; and to Preston Patrick and the General Meeting of
our Seeking People he must certainly come, since it is to be held in
three days' time. There are many folk, still seeking, on the other
side of the dales, who have not yet heard the good news, but who will
rejoice mightily when they find him there. Besides, he has promised my
wife that he will be the first guest to come and bless our home.'
'Yes in truth, he shall return with thee,' echoed Audland's friend,
John Camm of Cammsgill, 'since Preston Patrick is too far a step for
him to-day. He shall lodge with thee and thy good wife Anne, and bless
your home. But on Wednesday, betimes, thou must bring him to me at
Cammsgill right early in the day--and I will take him as my guest to
Preston Patrick and our Seekers' Meeting.'
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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