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A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ
A Journal of the Life Gospel Labours and Christian Experiences of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ Author:John Woolman General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: T. Hurst Subjects: Quakers Slavery History / United States / General Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christianity / Quaker Social Science / Slavery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ... more »illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. X. 1769 -- 1770. Bodily indisposition. -- Exercise of his mind for the good of the people in the West Indies. -- Communicates to friends his concern to visit some of those islands. -- Preparations to embark. -- Considerations on the trade to the West Indies. -- Release from his concern and return home. -- Religious engagements. -- Sickness and exercise of his mind therein. 12th of 3rd mo. 1769. Having for some years past dieted myself on account of a lump gathering on my nose, under which I grew weak in body, and was not of ability to travel by land as heretofore; I was at times favoured to look with awfulness towards the Lord, before whom are all my ways, who alone hath the power of life and death ; and to feel thankfulness raised in me for this his fatherly chastisement, believing, that if I was truly humbledPunder it, all would work for good. While under this bodily weakness, my mind was at times exercised for my fellow-creatures in the West Indies, and I grew jealous over myself, lest the disagreeableness of the prospect should hinder me from obediently attending thereto ; for though I knew not that the Lord required me to go there, yet I believed that resignation was now called for in that respect. Feeling a danger of not being wholly devoted to him, I was frequently engaged to watch unto prayer, that I might be preserved ; and upwards of a year having passed, as I one day walked in a solitary woed, ...« less