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xsify or themselves any longer . When they rose up to go , I asked them to drink some cyder . William excused for them saying , « we do not need it 'and turning to his companions , he very politely sent them to th £ ir lodgings , by saying in a low voice , * Friends , vou may as well move on : I'll follow
you soon . * He then took his seat , eh-Jered into free conversation and staid I believe an hour and a half . In the course of it he inquired what I was fiFst accused of ? When I told him he seemed astonished , saying he could not comprehend it . I smiled and observed , I did not wish him to puzzle
his head with it , I was satisfied'in my situation after having referred the matfer to th £ tribunal of public opinion . « What , ' said he , < in print ? I replied * yes * Jong ago / He still s £ erixed astonished that so wise a body as the Select Yearly Meeting in England , should condemn me for such a sentiment
respecting war . * I pleasantly observed , that I apprehendfed he had a very inadequate idea of the wisdom of that body ; and then related the observation of the female Elder , who Was sure physic had never been talked of in any
of their rtieetings . f He could not help laughing , but observed , the weakness of one old woman did not spoil the vrfaole . I told him , it was a very failsample of the wisdom of many of the rest " % He at length said , he should like
to hear me explain myself a little respecting moral evil , lor he strongly * This sentiment was , " that war is in itself , and ever was a moral evil ^ which iKan creates to himself , by the
misapplication of his powers ; or in other words , by the abuse of his free agency . " See an Appeal to tlie Society of Friends on the primitive simplicity of their Christian principles , &c . p . 45 .
-f- The circumstance here alluded to was this . A n \ nrclligent friend , now deceased , w \ t $ eaplaiJiing- in company the . distinction between moral and physical or natural evil , on which Hannah Barnard when accused of heterodoxy , had so strongly insisted before ^ i ; Select Yearly Meeting- of Ministers and KUlers in London : when this Elder
expressed her surprise that he should have so much mistaken the case , assuring him that she was present at every sitting * when it was under discussion , and thai nothing whatejrer had been said respecting- physic , icedi * e : ne , or any thing- of that kind ! ~ l This mfty seem a harsh ccnsuic , but it comports tolerably well , with the account
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suspected ht should b £ of my opinion I told him , I wdufd explain tny meah ~ ing so that he should clearly understand me- For instance , sickness i 3 what we call a natural [ or physical j
evil for the sake of distinction . And the act of the will , only , of a moral argent , which is contrary to the will of God , is a moral evil , chargeable on such agent in the sight of his Creator-, and when carried : into' overt act it
becomes an actual moral evil to the injury of one or more . He replied , «[ understand thee perfectly ; and I should say that war w ^ s such / I rejoined , ' So say I , and tot that I stand condemned by the Society / He looked at me very pleasantly and said , 'I
cannot look upon thee as £ uch a bad kind of woman as some people seem to think there /—* But * said h £ , ' is thereno way fbr the breach to be made up ? ' I told hititi thfc Monthly Meeting of Hudson had disowned me as a deluded
infidel , and whenever they became convinced that they had accused me \ Vrongfully , they had only to confess it , and I could freely forgive them . But I had no concessions to make . Finally , after a very friendly interview , we parted , I believe , with mutual esteem and good wishes /*
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486 Gift df Tongues .
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Gift of Tongues * Z , ?/ nn May 13 , 1815 . COUNTRY * subscriber to and A constant reader of the Monthly Repository , who has been lately perusing Mr . Be Isham ' s Letters to theBishop
of London , begs his respectful compliments to that gentleman and would be exceedingly obliged to him if he would , in any way which he thinks proper , explain and elucidate his assertion that , the gift of tongues mentioned in the book of Acts and other
parts of the New Testament , consisted in the miraculous Knowledge of strangelanguages- To the writer , this notion is far from satisfactory ; and , indeed , the gift of tongues appears to him in volved in more darkness ami < iiffi ^ u' ties than most things recorded in tltf New Testament .
pfiven of their proceedings by a mini * v . ho was present , and which he soon &wr described thus : " We fought Hannah says lie , " with very simple weapon *;/^ at reasoning she was quite too fntr * y *'" all of vs . " See an Apj- < : a ! to Vnen ^ V 40 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 486, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/22/
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