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have spent my last breath testifying of His Dying Loveto all people, created by His Inimitable Widom, whoformed all flesh for His own pleasure, and man for Hisspecial Glory, so that it is no wonder that He should laydown His own Life to influence them to serve, love, andadore Him, as their Lord and God forever, having not on-ly Power to take up His own Life again on the third day,according to the prophecy, or sign of Jonah the prophet,but also is the Resurrection, or Life, of all who are in thetomb, waiting for His Voice to call them forth, when theMystery of Righteousness is fulfilled, and the Kingdomof our Lord Jesus Christ completed, so that there requirethno longer an High Priest to atone for sin: but He shallbe adored as God over all, by the seed whom He has re-deemed through the Spilling of His Most Precious Blood,an eternal sign to them of His Merit and Soverign Love,which undertook the cause of all, to reinstate themin paradisiacal happiness, which was lost when satan beguil-ed our first parents, when the milk of human kindnessflowed from each heart, to one another; and innocencewas sealed on their forehead, as a mark of divine favour,which they lost the moment they both transgressed, andfound they were naked, having bereaved themselves ofinherent Righteousness, that might be compared to LifeEternal, which is found only in Jesus Christ, the SecondAdam, whose Life is diffused into every true believer onHis Name, who calls Himself the Resurrection and Life. [6th 8th mo. 1805. Vernon, Oneida.] Yesterday Peggy Young, daughter of Calvin and EveYoung, rode with me nine miles further to the West, tohave a meeting with a Presbyterian congregation. Aswe were going the horse stopped al on a sudden, andwould not go one step, but as I expected we both shouldbe thrown out, as we ere on the midst of a hill, whichscared my dear companion so much that I was obliged toforce her to jump out of the chaise, to prevent her faintingaway, which she did, as she reached her father’s residence,running thither for some one to make the horse move.