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ready to give to the necessitous than receive from suchwho offer it. A kind Quaker, who heard me in Augusta, gave meone dollar, which is the second I have received during fiveweeks, and I have relieved three or four with it. Thisfriend attended a meeting before, and spoke admirably,from the Dry bones in Ezekiel, which after he had done,I arose and sanctioned it, as life and power were in thetestimony. When I sat down, he got up, and told thatpeople, his concern of this day had impressed his mindtwenty years, which he had believed it his duty to comeand pay them a visit: but the way never opened until thattime, which had relieved his spirit much. he again satdown, and I resumed my place, feeling great love andfaith, with an ardent solicitude to benefit all present:which stirred up the Gift of my aged brother, whom theLord sent after me to help in His vineyard: therefore,our meeting continued long, and the people were favouredto hear the sound of his voice the third time, which quick-ened the fire of Celestial Love in my heart, so that I wasinduced to supplicate the Throne of Mercy for preserva-tion, and an increase of faith and love for each, when hehad closed his message, and then endeavoured to concludethe meeting: but, a Methodist preacher requested I wouldpermit him to say something to the people, which I wasfree to do, and he with tears told all present, to Trea-sure up what they had heard; for Jesus Christ male andfemale were one. When you go home, don’t you say as Isaid last week, It is only a woman. My brethren andsisters, I went to hear this woman in a barn, and the Wordreached me powerfully, and followed me home, and hasbrought me miles to-day, to testify this among you; forbefore this, I did not think a woman ought to preach: butnow I am convinced God has sent her to preach JesusChrist’s Gospel. This person sat down, and an Indiansister rose immediately, and testified thus, If I was tohold my tongue, and not tell that it is thirty-three yearssince I became a Christian, those beams would speak