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day crossing the Potomac we rode forty miles to
Fairfax. This Quarter is made up of Fairfax,
Hopewell, Goose Creek, and Crooked Run
Monthly Meetings, in Virginia, and Westland
or Redstone,in Pennsylvania. Benjamin and I
lodged five nights at John Huff's. At this
meeting were Richard and Thomas Titus, of
Long Island, Charity Cook and Rebecca Fin-
cher, of North Carolina, and Jonathan Brown,
of Pennsylvania, being on religious visits, beside
our committee. John Townsend, of London,
being at the Yearly Meeting in Virginia, ob-
tained there the approval of a minute to endeav-
or to have this Quarter joined to that Yearly
Meeting. He was also at Baltimore, where, by
his means, a committee was likewise appointed
to attend the next Yearly Meeting at Philadel-
phia, for the purpose of having a part or the
whole of Warrington and Pipe Creek Quarter
joined to Maryland Yearly Meeting. Whether
this move will immediately take place I know
not, but I believe something of this kind will
in a future day be brought about. On Fourth-
day (6th ‘mo. 13th) most of the committee set
off homewards, crossed the Potomac and Mono-
cacy, and passed through Frederick, a consid-
erable town, forty miles to Pipe Creek, where
Benjamin and I sojourned with Joseph Wright.
Next day ‘we went through ‘Tawnytown, McCal-
lister’s Town, and Peter Little’s Town, forty
miles to York, where, as before, we lodged at
Herman Updegrafi’s. Next day we rode forty
miles, through Lancaster, to John Freeman’s,
in the Valley; and next. day (seventh of the
week) forty-three miles to Philadelphia. - These
three days were very warm, and the effort was
quite too much for me, so that I reached Phila-
delphia with difficulty; however I made out to
get home the next day, but did not recover for
some time.* :

«J undertook this journey in a low state of
health and under much discouragement, but the
contemplation how way seemed to be made for
me, and the great kindness I received from
Friends, many of whom were strangers, often
bowed my mind in deep thankfulness, and
brought me to feel how good it is to be given
up to the faithful discharge of the little that
may be ‘committed to our trust by Him who
never suffers any of his dependent children to
serve Him for nought. In this journey I was
‘at one Yearly, three Quarterly, and many Select,
Meetings, and though Divine good was some-
times experienced, and we met with some tender.
worthy Friends, especially about York, yet, in
general, things appeared to me exceedingly low;
great languor and weakness among Friends ;
many settled down at ease, and too much
‘strangers to that zeal for God’s honor which.
keeps living and green in his church, and among

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his people. And this was in a degree very dif-
ferent from what I expected to meet in these
parts. What this will lead to, or where it will
end, He only knows who beholds in one view
the past, present and future; but, to me, it looks
as though judgments will awaken and arouse the
careless daughters of Zion.”

What serious considerations do these remarks
suggest? The route just described was through
Delaware, Southern Pennsylvania, the portion
of Maryland covered, at the time of the present
writing, with hostile troops, and a part of the
Virginia battle ground. At that time the So-
ciety of Friends was numerous and influential
in these parts. Had its members, instead of
giving way to ease, languor and weakness, as
above described, cultivated ‘that zeal for God’s
honor which keeps living and green in His
church, and among His people,” is it not a rea-
sonable presumption that, “rooted and grounded
in Jove,” they would have had peace among
themselves, and an important influence in the
communities around them, in checking those
anti-Christian practices and principles, which
have borne their ripe fruit in treason and in
horrible carnage. Were they truly so concerned,
they would be again, as in their early days, a
demonstrative people. Entrusted with precious
testimonies, they would deeply feel the respon-
sibility of the trust, and, with the Lord for their
husbandman and the world for their field of
labor, they would extend, into ever widening
¢ircles, the principles which have been illustra-
ted by holy men of successive generations, and
the candid observer might write respecting
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“Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one
to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it: |
and a book of remembrance was written before Him
for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon
His name.””—Malachi iii. 16.

Thus spake the prophet Malachi of the rem-
nant that were spared unto Israel. And tothem
the promise was given that the Lord would
spare them in the day when He made up His
jewels even as a man spareth his own son that
serveth him. If then the children of Israel
found pleasure and received the greatest of
blessings, from often communing upon Heaven
and Heavenly things, and recounting the many
favors they were daily receiving at the hand of
the Lord, would no tthe Christians of the pres-
ent day be equally blessed while spending some
of their precious time in the same way? And
yet how seldom do-we hear these things alluded
+o in-eur intercourse one with another. Harth
and earthly things receive our attention, as
though we considered this our permanent abode,
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}pare for another, and, we hope, happier home.